Todos los capítulos de The Don’s Regret After Signing the Divorce Papers Without Reading Them: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 8

When I pushed open the conference room doors, Victor was pinning the black diamond brooch on Irene.He did it carefully, as if he were afraid of hurting her.Three years earlier, on the night before our wedding, he had stood behind me just like that and pinned the same brooch to my dress.That night, he had said, "From tonight on, no one in the Rinaldi family will go over your head."Now he had put it on another woman.Irene looked down at the black diamond and touched it, her eyes red."Is this really all right? Won't Adriana be upset?"Victor said, "As long as I'm here, nobody gets to upset you."Irene saw me and shot to her feet as if she'd been caught doing something wrong."Adriana, I'm only standing in for you at tonight's negotiation."I looked at the chair.The metal nameplate on the back of the chair had been removed. A new temporary one lay beside Irene's hand.My South Port proposal was next to it, and my mother's necklace was around her neck.A few captains I had personally

Five days after Victor signed the agreement, the South Port manager called me."Ms. Vitale, members of the Rinaldi family have arrived at the central building with Ms. Costa and a group of clients. The invitation was signed in your name."I said, "Send them through the visitor entrance."He lowered his voice. "Ms. Costa refuses to take the clients through the visitor entrance, but she isn't cleared to use any other entrance... The clients all think you changed your mind at the last minute to embarrass the Rinaldi family."Irene had invited them in my name, then blamed me when she couldn't open the door.Victor let her do it.Once that was clear, I left for South Port.I wasn't going to clean up after them. I was going to protect both my name and the Vitale family name.I got there half an hour later.The lobby was full of people. The nameplate on my office door had been removed and replaced with Irene's name.She stood beneath it, wearing Victor's coat as if she already owned the place

Victor grabbed the agreement and flipped back through it, page by page."I thought this was the South Port partnership agreement."His grip tightened when he finally saw the heading at the top of the first page.[Dissolution of the Marriage Contract Between the Rinaldi and Vitale families]Minutes earlier, he had taken my seat from me in public and handed the South Port liaison role to Irene.Now he turned to the advisor, his expression grim."Restore Adriana's seat on the council. Give her back her estate access and her security detail."The advisor opened his file and said quietly, "Don, her seat on the council can be restored."Victor's expression eased slightly. "And the Rinaldi family's special access at South Port?"The advisor didn't answer.South Port's counsel answered instead. "Mr. Rinaldi, core zone access, route guarantees, and priority berthing at South Port all depend on Vitale authorization."With the marriage contract dissolved, that authorization has been withdrawn. Th

Victor stopped in the doorway.A few minutes later, the enforcers brought Irene to the meeting room door.She was wearing the black diamond brooch and clutching a rejected authorization document she'd crumpled in her hand.All the clients waiting to sign in the corridor saw that she'd been stopped outside the core zone.The moment Irene saw Victor, her eyes turned red."You can't sign her contract. The terms are too harsh."She slapped the document down on the table."If you just say the divorce isn't valid, Adriana has to continue acting as guarantor for the Rinaldi family."Victor said nothing.In the past, all she had to do was cry, and he would step in front of her.This time, he looked at me instead, without even meaning to.I turned to South Port's counsel. "Read the reason for the rejection."He opened the file. "Ms. Costa's application for permanent authorization used a scan of Ms. Vitale's old signature."Irene went white. "I didn't know. My assistant prepared it."Someone in