All Chapters of They Threw Cash at Me, I Returned as the Don: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The whole slaughterhouse went dead silent.Isaac froze for a moment. He couldn't believe the same "broke little punk" from five years ago would dare speak to him that way.The thugs who had been about to move stopped short. Something about me unsettled them."You really can't drop the act, can you? A kept man who slept his way to the top, playing savior?"What are you going to use against me? Your connections? Your backers? You're a nobody mouthing off in front of me."Isaac strode forward and, before anyone could react, snatched the lighter out of Marcella's arms.Isaac held it between two fingers and studied it as if it were some rare treasure.He saw the two names scratched crookedly into it with the tip of a knife. Gian & Marcella."Give it back!"Marcella lunged like a madwoman, and two thugs pinned her to the floor.Isaac hooked a finger under her chin and forced her to look at him.His gaze crawled over her face, down her neck, and over the rise of her chest. He didn't even try

Her uncle picked it up and turned it over. No jewels. No diamonds. Just an emblem he didn't recognize: a raven joined to a crown.He curled his lip and flung it into the pool of blood in front of everyone."An unmarked piece of scrap metal. Who do you think you're fooling?"Gian, you think we're all hicks who've never seen the world, like you?"Marcella thought the badge had been my last card to play. The light went out of her eyes.Still, she spread her arms and put her thin body between me and them."Enough! Gian is the only man I've ever loved. I won't let you treat him like this."A small-time family boss named Antonelli sidled up to Marcella, clicking his tongue in false concern."Marcella, no offense, but are you out of your mind?"A catch like Isaac? What woman on the East Coast wouldn't throw herself at him? Yet you're standing against all of us for some pretty boy."Marcella looked at him coldly. "Antonelli, this is Franco family business."Antonelli flushed, spat, and turned

Marcella's brief hope vanished, and she sagged against me.My expression hardened. I said nothing, only looked down and sent another message."If they want bullets to do the talking, buy Blackhaven's entire underworld."Isaac didn't notice.He thought he had won again, and strolled over to me."Gian, you did come up with thirty million. I'll admit you've got something."Too bad. In Blackhaven, money alone doesn't cut it. You have to live long enough to spend it."He picked up the agreement from the floor and flung it in Marcella's face triumphantly."Marcella, this is your last chance."Sign this, sell yourself to me, and I'll clean up the Franco family's mess. Then you'll be mine."Otherwise, one call from me and you two dogs end up dead in the street, or rotting in a cell for life."Her uncle grabbed a pen and forced it into Marcella's hand."Marcella, what good is his money? It's all come to nothing. He's still useless!"Marcella's aunt clutched her hand, weeping."Marcella, I'm beg

The thugs shouted obscenities, murder in their eyes.I glanced at Luna.Luna nodded and spoke into the microphone on her collar. "Clear the room."The ventilation ducts overhead burst open.Dozens of ropes dropped, and a squad of heavily armed mercenaries in tactical masks rappelled down like soldiers falling from the sky.At the same moment, hidden doors around the building were kicked open, and tactical floodlights lit the place like daylight.Before the thugs could react, red laser dots appeared on their foreheads.Their leader, a thug called Leopard, had barely raised his machete when a mercenary shattered his knee with a kick. His scream filled the building.It was a one-sided slaughter.In less than 10 seconds, dozens of hardened gang thugs were pinned in the mud like dead dogs, moaning and unable to fight back.Marcella's aunt crawled under an abandoned truck and huddled there with her arms over her head, barely daring to breathe.Her uncle slid down the wall in a dead faint, hi

At last, only the two of us remained in the wrecked slaughterhouse.Marcella stood in the middle of the mess with her back to me, her shoulders trembling."Gian, who are you, really? What happened to you these past five years?"I walked over and stood in front of her.Her eyes were empty and dazed."Five years ago, you vanished. I searched everywhere I could think of, but I couldn't find you."Everyone said you betrayed the family and ran away. I didn't believe them... but I still couldn't find you."I put my hands on her shoulders and spoke softly."It's a long story. But I'm back, Marcella. I came back to reclaim everything that belongs to us."After I left, I planned to find work in Europe. Instead, a group of men grabbed me at the port."The man behind it was the former head of the Raven Group, a reclusive old man with no heirs and little time left."He put countless young men like me through the cruelest tests imaginable. We had nothing and wanted everything. I was the only one wh