All Chapters of I Divorced the Don Who Betrayed Me: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

I spent three years in prison.Three years ago, the police seized the Nelli family's arms depot.Silvio's signature was on the ledgers. If the police had kept digging, he and the whole Nelli family would have been finished.I stepped forward and confessed, claiming the shipment was mine.Silvio held me, his eyes bloodshot."Serafina, when you get out, I'll give you anything you ask for."I believed him.After I got out, everyone said I had changed.Once, I loved Silvio so much I couldn't stand to see him hurt.A few days ago, he got hurt in an accident. I didn't even ask how he was.My best friend, Zoe Fontana, handed me her phone."Your wonderful husband has a baby."They looked like the perfect little family."Everyone says you don't love Silvio anymore. I don't buy it."Zoe leaned in, studying my face."He has a child with another woman, and you're doing nothing?"I drained the champagne in my glass."Of course not. My husband is having his son christened. I should go congratulate t

Chapter 2

Three days later, I brought a stack of transfer papers for several shops in the old quarter to Silvio's study.Bianca had just thrown a fit because the baby wouldn't stop crying.Silvio sent someone to calm her down and impatiently flipped through a few pages."Still sulking about the christening?""Didn't you say I could have whatever I wanted? They're just a few shops."He thought I was finally willing to let money settle things. His face softened, and he signed every page without reading it.He never noticed the divorce agreement tucked under the last transfer document.When I took the papers back, my hands were perfectly steady.I had the signature, but I couldn't leave yet.I still had to freeze our joint accounts, separate the Thorne businesses, secure the court ruling, and plan my escape. All of that took time. If Silvio found out, anyone who sided with me would be treated as a traitor.Until the ruling took effect, I still had to play the Donna of the Nelli family.I handed the

Chapter 3

I spent the entire night gathering evidence.Someone had seen Bianca buy a veterinary stimulant before the christening, a drug that could drive an animal wild. Another person had smelled it on the blanket.She had been abusing Bruno ever since I went to prison. He attacked her because of the drug on the blanket and because he remembered what she'd done to him.As for the order to kill Bruno, Silvio hadn't given it himself.But he had locked me in the doghouse, ignored Lucas's warning, and given Bianca control of the estate.Bianca had used that power to kill Bruno.Silvio wasn't innocent.He had put the weapon in her hands.I made three copies of the statements and purchase records. I sent one to Dario and another to my family. I put the last copy in an envelope.When I finished, I pressed Bruno's photo to my chest."Sweetheart, I'm going to avenge you."I found Silvio in the garden.He looked at me, calm as ever."Come to apologize?""No. I've come to prove you wrong."I held up the f

Chapter 4

Zoe and I had been friends for twenty years. She was family, even if we didn't share blood.I had lost Renata. I had lost Bruno. I wouldn't lose Zoe too.By the pool, Bianca sat in a chair.Silvio crouched beside her, gently giving her water.Dozens of guards poured bottle after bottle of whiskey into the pool. The sharp smell of alcohol filled the air.Empty bottles piled up beside the pool.Zoe's hands were tied behind her, her mouth taped shut as two guards held her down."Zoe!"I ran toward her, but the guards stopped me."Silvio, let her go!"Silvio looked up and gave me a cold glance."Control yourself, Serafina.""You know what Zoe means to me!""And?"I knew I couldn't fight him right now. I forced my voice to soften."Let her go. Please."Silvio's expression started to soften, but Bianca grabbed his hand, her eyes filling with tears."Don Silvio, let Miss Fontana go. I don't want the Donna to hate you for defending me."Silvio's face darkened."Throw Zoe in."I struggled with

Chapter 5

The next morning, the East Coast Family Commission finalized our divorce.My family immediately froze the joint accounts I had funded, and three shipping lines stopped handling Nelli cargo.Those businesses were my dowry.After using them for ten years, Silvio had started treating them as his own.When the notice reached East Port, the Nelli men refused to leave the warehouse.Six months' worth of Nelli cargo was stored there. If shipments stopped, the family would lose a fortune every day.I went to the port myself.Marco, the capo there, blocked the gate with over twenty men.These men had once called me Donna. Now their hands rested on their weapons as they waited to see if I really dared turn against Silvio."Without an order from the Don, no one stops a Nelli shipment.""The land belongs to me. I bought the equipment and pay your wages."I handed him the property documents."From today on, if the Nelli family wants to use East Port, they'll pay rent."Marco refused to move."The D

Chapter 6

Silvio searched the entire estate and found only a pale mark on the wall where our wedding portrait used to hang.None of my dresses were in the closet. None of the account books I kept were in the study. Even our photo by the bed was gone.Silvio opened every door, but there was nothing left to show I'd ever lived there."Where are her things?"A servant lowered his head. "Donna took what mattered to her. Miss Russo threw out the rest.""Who gave her permission to do that?""You did. You said Miss Russo was in charge of everything."Silvio froze.Then the Marino family delivered a gold plaque with two words engraved on it: HAPPY DIVORCE.The party guests were still there. Every one of them saw the insult.Under the plaque were the divorce agreement, his notarized signature, and the court decree.Silvio tore the documents to pieces."They're fake! I never agreed to a divorce!"Lucas picked up the page with Silvio's signature."She told you clearly at the christening. You were so sure s

Chapter 7

I called a meeting at the Thorne estate. The capos sat around the table.Then Camillo, the Nelli family's most senior elder, stormed in with armed men."A piece of paper from a court means nothing. There is no divorce in the underworld. A Donna who betrays the family should be executed."When he finished, four gunmen blocked every exit.All twelve capos stood at once. The room went tense.Dario's bodyguards drew their weapons. I raised a hand to stop them."You can refuse to recognize the court. But you can't ignore the port agreements you signed."I spread three documents on the table.If I died or disappeared, the ports, bank guarantees and pharmaceutical supply lines would cut all ties with the Nelli family for good.The Marino family would hunt down whoever did it. The Fontana family would freeze the accounts of anyone who helped them.This was the protection I'd arranged while waiting at the estate for the divorce ruling.During those twenty-one days, they were busy humiliating me

Chapter 8

This was the Nelli family's secret mountain estate.My phone and jewelry were gone. Only the tracker sewn into my skirt was still working.After our engagement, Dario had ordered the tailor to put a tracker in every dress I owned.I had laughed at him for being paranoid. Now I was glad I'd let him."Zoe never went into cardiac arrest."Silvio did not deny it."You wouldn't give me a chance, so I had to invite you here."When he said "invite," he straightened my collar, deliberately avoiding the restraint marks on my wrists."You used Zoe to lure me here. Is this your idea of making things right?""Stay, and I'll explain everything to the Fontana family."He clapped his hands, and Bianca was dragged in, covered in bruises."You see? I avenged you.""You're the one who deserves the worst punishment."Silvio untied me and held out a dagger."You can punish me however you want. Just forgive me."He placed the handle in my hand, as if one stab could erase everything he'd done.Blood ran dow

Chapter 9

At the mountain estate, I found a receipt from the hospital where Stefano was born.A stranger had paid to store Stefano's cord blood.Dario quickly found out the man had been Bianca's lover for four years.Bianca had kept sending him money even after Stefano was born.She had used Stefano's status as the Nelli heir to secure her place in the family, while using Silvio's money to support the boy's real father."Paternity test?""Do it. Send the result to Silvio.""You know what he'll do when he sees it.""I'm only giving him the truth."Bianca had used Silvio's power to kill Bruno.Now I would take away the one thing protecting her.Silvio kept saying the child was innocent. But more than anything, he feared becoming a joke for raising another man's son.The child was innocent, so I had already arranged a nanny and a safe home for him.When the paternity test reached Silvio's hospital room, he had just woken up with a high fever.In the week since he lost his men, the Nelli family's wa

Chapter 10

Three months later, Dario and I stood before the altar in the Thorne family church.In all that time, Dario had never pressured me to marry him. He'd never touched my money or challenged my authority either.When someone suggested putting my family businesses under the Marino name, Dario refused in front of everyone."Her family name, her power, and her property are hers alone."That was when I finally understood. He wanted to stand beside me, not control me.I chose our wedding date myself.The priest had barely finished asking Dario if he would take me as his wife before Dario answered, "I do.""Serafina Thorne, do you take..."Silvio's roar came from outside the church."She doesn't!"He stormed up the steps with what remained of the Nelli family behind him.The guests did not scream. Marino and Thorne gunmen already guarded every entrance.The shooting lasted less than a minute.None of Silvio's men made it inside. When the gunfire stopped, Silvio was the only one still moving.He

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