All Chapters of They Broke Me. Then They Begged: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

In my fifteenth year of growing up alongside three future mafia godfathers, when all three proposed to me at once, I chose Luca.And they cast me out at my own wedding.Luca stood before the altar and threw my veil aside in disgust.I was stunned.Ten minutes ago he'd been holding my hands, reciting his vows, looking at me with those heavy eyes."Luca..." I called to him.He'd already turned and walked away.I instinctively looked for Dante.He doted on me most, treated me like his own little sister, panicked out of his mind every time I cried.Dante's face was pure impatience:"What are you looking at? This whole lie needs to end."I didn't understand. "Dante, what are you three doing? Explain it to me.""There's nothing to explain." He cut me off. "Sofia is the real princess. She's back now. Your good days are over."I opened my mouth, then turned to look at Sebastian.He was still smiling—that gentle smile I'd known my whole life.But when he spoke, his voice was colder than the rai

Chapter 2

His arms stayed frozen around me for a long time.In the end he just hauled me off the ground, shoved me back into the car, and locked the doors."We're going home.""Which home?" I asked.His throat worked. "The estate. Where we all live."I laughed once. "That would just be an eyesore for you. Drop me off outside any motel. Don't worry, I'll be spending my own money.""Elena!"He cut me off, loud enough to be frightening.And I saw something surface on the face of this man who'd picked fights his whole life and never once backed down—something almost hurt."You were raised in the palms of our hands. All three of us," he said. "And now you want to stay in some filthy little motel? Would it kill you to give in a little?"I found it almost funny."But isn't the person being held in your palms now named Sofia Vitale?"His whole body flinched. Probably remembering.Because the ones who'd announced to a full church today that I was a "counterfeit" were those three.And I—who'd grown up at

Chapter 3

Distress? No.I told it: "I don't grieve over people who aren't worth it."I just felt a little like hitting someone.Sofia rose from the sofa.She took two steps toward me, and suddenly her eyes went red, her voice soft and light, pitched just loud enough to carry across the entire hall:"Sister, don't look at me like that... No, never mind. Hate me if you want. It's my fault for coming back alive, for making you give back the fifteen years you enjoyed for free."She threw herself into the arms of the just-arrived Dante, shoulders trembling:"Brother, she must be thinking—how much better it would have been if I'd just died out there fifteen years ago."Dante only caught the last few sentences, and immediately ordered me:"Elena, apologize to Sofia!"I slapped her across the face."Ah!"She shrieked, collapsing sideways against Dante, her hair clip flying off.I withdrew my hand at my leisure.The next second, someone seized my wrist, the world spun, and I was slammed onto the floor.L

Chapter 4

"It's just a dirty thing someone else wore."My throat was so raw I could barely make sound, so I spoke softly. "I don't want it anymore. Is that not allowed?"Sebastian's chest heaved violently, the hand holding the soup bowl trembling.He slowly crouched, picked up the bracelet, and closed it in his fist."Elena. Sofia lent this to you specially. She said you needed it more than she did.""I don't want it." I closed my eyes. "I don't want things other people gave back because they didn't want them either."That drove him past his limit.The shell of gentility shattered completely, exposing something dark underneath."You don't want it? Everything you've enjoyed all these years was charity from us! What gives you the right to say you don't want it?"I felt unexpectedly calm inside, and said mildly:"Oh. My apologies, then."That one line set him fully alight.He straightened, dropped his voice low—which was far more chilling than shouting:"You need to learn a lesson.""The pawnshop i

Chapter 5

Luca's lips were moving, but no sound came out, his face gone white in an instant.Dante crashed in past him, staggered, and dropped to his knees beside me.His hands shook as he pressed them over the bullet hole at my temple, blood pouring out between his fingers."Doctor!" he snarled. "Get a doctor here! Now!"His ribs were still wrapped, and the violent movement tore them open again.But he just kept pressing on the wound like a man gone mad.Sebastian came in last.He didn't shout. He didn't rush over.He just stood there, staring at the wedding ring on the floor.Then his strength gave out and he sank to his knees, repeating one thing over and over:"She's dead... she doesn't want us anymore..."Sofia had come in with the expression of someone about to enjoy a show.But when she saw the blood across the floor and the hole in my head, that expression cracked.It took her only an instant to recover. She rushed in with reddened eyes:"Oh God... sister... it's all my fault, I shouldn'

Chapter 6

【They never actually wanted to hurt you. The things they did before—that was because Sofia and her system deceived them.】The system's voice was full of guilt:【But I understand that the damage already done is irreversible. I'm very sorry.】I thought of the afternoon Luca first smiled at me.Dante saying: "From now on you've got big brothers. Nobody gets to push you around."And that wound on Sebastian's left arm, cut down to the bone.My heart still gave a twist of pain.Those kindnesses hadn't all been fake.But the harm that came later had all been real too.【Sofia told them that the moment you completed your mission, you would disappear forever.】【And that the only way to keep you was to make sure you never completed it.】So the way they'd hurt me was, in fact, because they loved me?Absurd.The system was quiet for a few seconds, then went on:【Host, I'd like to show you some things. You can refuse if you don't want to see.】I nodded.A half-transparent screen materialized in fron

Chapter 7

I was perfectly calm:"No need. No amount of apology changes anything. It would only annoy me."The system didn't press.【Understood, host. Then I wish you peace and happiness for the rest of your life. Goodbye.】I went back to Mama Maria's orphanage.It had been closed for three years.The iron gate was rusted shut, so I climbed the wall.In the yard, the swing had a broken chain and hung crooked.Mama Maria passed in my second year at the military academy.Pancreatic cancer. Late stage by the time they found it.She hadn't told me.By the time I got the news and made it back, she no longer recognized anyone.In her last few seconds of lucidity, she touched my face and said:"Little Elena. Be a kind person."Now I had the means to live up to that.I spent four months rebuilding the place from the ground up.I named it the Lighthouse.Not for any poetic reason.Mama Maria always used to say an orphanage should be like a lighthouse, so lost children know which way to go.The first group

Chapter 8

I opened my eyes."I have nothing to do with that world anymore."It cut in urgently:【I know! If that world weren't about to be destroyed, I would never disturb you!】【After you left I arranged several new female leads. They killed every one of them!】【Luca performs a soul-summoning ritual in the basement with his own blood every day. Dante slaughtered two families just because someone claimed to know a way to resurrect the dead—and it turned out to be a lie!】【After Sebastian preserved that body, he used extremely... cruel methods to extract Sofia's system out of her, and he interrogates that system every day about how to wake you. He hasn't slept in half a month!】I sighed.I hadn't expected them to become obsessive to that degree.The system pleaded with me:【Please, I'm begging you. If the world fully collapses, every innocent person inside it dies along with it.】I was silent a long while.The sound of children laughing drifted across the yard."All right. I'll go back. The child

Chapter 9

Luca reacted fastest and kicked her square in the chest.Sofia flew backward screaming, slammed hard into the wall, and slid down to the floor.She lay there, bloody foam spilling from her mouth:"It's all because of you... they destroyed me... it's all because of you..."Her voice grew weaker and weaker, and then she stopped breathing.Luca didn't even glance at her.He only watched me carefully, his voice pitched low, as if afraid of frightening me:"You're not hurt?"I looked at the hope in their eyes and laughed."System," I said. "As the former owner of that body, I order you to erase it."Granted authorization, it answered brightly:【Understood! You're right here in person, so making it disappear doesn't count as killing the female lead!】The next second, that body vanished as if it had never existed.All three of them froze at once."The me of this world is already dead," I said. "You can kill Sofia, you can kill more people—none of it will do anything but drag this entire world

Chapter 10

Dante's tears fell.Sebastian bit his lip until it bled.Luca watched me without moving, his fingers shaking violently."But now."I drew a deep breath."I have a new home. I have people who genuinely care about me, and a whole crowd of children waiting for me to come back.""I'm not staying here again."I stared at the blocker in Luca's hand:"Worst case, I die one more time. This life was salvaged from a wreck to begin with."Luca's hand went white around the blocker.He stared at my face like he was trying to carve it into memory.And then his fingers slowly opened.The blocker slipped out of his hand and hit the floor with a clack."I'll let you go."His voice was almost inaudible.Dante's head snapped around. "Luca!""I'm letting her go." Luca repeated it, his voice hollow.He bent and drew a dagger from his boot.The movement was too fast for anyone to react.The sound of the blade sinking into his chest was very quiet, like a sigh.He dropped to his knees, blood welling from the

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