All Chapters of I Refuse To Be Their Blank Chip: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

The second slap was coming, but my father caught her wrist. "Enough, Isabella," Marco growled. "The charity gala is in two days. Every Don on the East Coast will be there. How do I explain a bruised bride to the guests?"Isabella scoffed and pulled her hand back. I slumped onto the rug, gasping for air. I looked past Marco's tailored suit. Into the corner of the sofa. Julian, my fiancé, sat there. Three buttons undone. No tie. My sister Sofia cowered behind him, head down, frantically pulling a slipped strap back over her shoulder. "You all saw it." I pushed myself off the floor. "On the yacht. They were naked. All over each other. And now, you want me to apologize?"Isabella walked over, took off her cashmere shawl, and draped it over Sofia. She turned to me, frowning. "Rory, temper. The Vitali and Marchetti alliance secures our East Coast ports. If this scandal leaks, what will The Commission think?""They're the ones who caused the scandal!" I fired back. Nico closed the dis

Chapter 2

I clung to the fireplace, forcing myself to stand tall. The blood on my forehead was half-dry, pulling at my skin."You all look so sweet standing together," I smirked. "But a majority vote doesn't make you clean."Nico frowned. A flash of pity crossed his eyes, but he stepped toward me anyway.Julian put a hand up to stop him."Enough, Nico." Julian adjusted his collar. He looked at me with pure disgust. "Aurora, you're always so aggressive. You suffocate everyone around you. Sofia is different. She's sweet. She needs protection."I stared at him.Sweet? That was the illusion she had maintained her whole life. Since we were little, Sofia was always the sweet-talker, bubbling with words that easily melted our parents' hearts. She knew exactly how to play the favorite. As we grew up, that 'sweetness' became her weapon. Whenever she wanted to snatch my resources or steal my clients in the family business, she would play the victim, twisting the truth and crying to Isabella. She effo

Chapter 3

Elena was gone. I had to get myself out. I found a letter opener in my desk drawer. The bedroom door had a new lock, but the French doors to the balcony were old. After sundown, I pried the latch open and slipped onto the balcony. Sliding down the drainpipe, my left foot twisted when I landed. A sharp pain shot up my ankle. I bit my lip to keep quiet, limping along the estate's stone wall to the back gate. Two guards stood at the iron gate. "Open it," I said, keeping my voice steady. "Donna Isabella sent me on an errand."They took one look at my torn dress and bloody forehead. They turned and hit their radios. Minutes later, blinding headlights swept across the lawn. A golf cart rolled up. Nico and Julian got out. Nico grabbed my wrist. "Where do you think you're going to embarrass us?"I twisted away and clung to the iron gate. "I'm not marrying him. Let me go. I won't touch a single cent of Vitali money."Julian stepped closer, faking concern. "Aurora, don't talk like that. I

Chapter 4

I gripped the vanity and slowly pulled myself up."You can't bear to let your golden girl look bad." I pointed at Sofia, tears spilling from my eyes. "So I'm the crazy one. Isabella... do I mean nothing to you?"Isabella pointed a finger right in my face. "Shut your mouth.""You know I'm not sick." I didn't back down. "You know exactly what Sofia and Julian did on that boat. You're just scared the Marchettis will pull out. Scared of losing your East Coast ports. So I'm the scapegoat."The air froze.Julian stepped forward, his voice low. "Aurora, stop talking."I swatted his hand away and looked at my father, who was still sitting on the sofa."You were there too." I looked Marco dead in the eye. "You saw everything last night."Marco snapped his cigar box shut. Click. It was deafening in the quiet room."Your mother already gave Mrs. Marchetti her word." Marco twisted the signet ring on his thumb, deliberately looking away. "Changing the story now makes the Vitali family a joke to the

Chapter 5

I stood up in the dead silence. No. Scratch that. I floated.The skull-splitting pain? Gone. The biting cold? Also gone. I looked down at the concrete floor. I was still lying there.A pool of dark blood had spread beneath my head. It had already turned a sick, muddy brown. My eyes were half-open. Pupils blown. Dead. I was so dead. No rescue. No last struggle. Like a broken tool, I bled out alone in the basement. Just another casualty in this brutal mafia world.Sharp heels clicked outside, breaking the silence. Isabella. My mother. She stopped at the door.Even through the solid wood, I could feel her rage.Normally? I’d be pounding on that door. I’d argue. I’d fight. I’d scream for the truth.But now? Nothing. Dead silence. And it was pissing Isabella off. She was used to my defiance. To her, my silence was just another provocation."You think giving me the silent treatment will work?" Isabella sneered, kicking the door impatiently. "Guess that bottle didn't teach you a lesso

Chapter 6

Noon, the next day. The estate was buzzing.I could hear the florists hauling in roses. The heavy thud of armored SUVs slamming shut outside.Capos and soldiers wearing the family crest patrolled the hall.Tonight was the charity gala. The night they’d announce to the East Coast Alliance and The Commission that Sofia was replacing me as the bride.The chaos outside made the silence in my room even louder.I was still floating. Staring at my own cold body. The dark blood was completely dried. That fake confession sat right on the edge of the puddle.Rapid heel clicks stomped closer. Stopped right at my door."Open the door." Isabella was furious. "Is she really going to starve herself until the gala?""Mother, maybe she's just asleep," Nico said."Asleep?" Isabella scoffed. "She's just testing me. Open it. Let's see how long she can play tough."Click. The door swung open. Sunlight stabbed into the dark room.Isabella stood there. Holding the bridesmaid dress she wanted to force me i

Chapter 7

"Rory." Isabella dropped to the floor. Voice trembling."I'm right here," I whispered from the ceiling. Not that anyone could hear a ghost.Isabella fell to her knees right into the blood. She scooped up my head. My dark blood instantly ruined her ten-thousand-dollar silk dress.Then her fingers brushed the fatal gash on my temple. Split right down to the bone. She flinched like a snake bit her."Doctor!" She let out a bloodcurdling scream. Her voice completely cracked. "Nico! Get a doctor! NOW!"Nico scrambled out of the room like a rat.Isabella clung to my stiff body. She panicked, grabbing the bloody confession and a pen. She pried open my cold, rigid fingers and shoved the pen in."Just sign it, Rory. Be a good girl." She babbled, huge tears dropping onto my face. "Sign it and Mommy will forgive you. Good girl..."She forced my hand, scribbling wildly on the paper. The pen tore through the page, leaving a mess of desperate, twisted ink.Minutes later, guards rushed in and ca

Chapter 8

Marco. The Don of the Vitali family. He pushed the door open just as the symphony started playing downstairs. Dressed in a flawless custom tux.He saw my dead body. Stopped dead in his tracks. But he didn't run to me. He turned to his soldier at the door. "Lock down the hall. Nobody comes near."Elena snapped. While the guards were busy with the doctor, she lunged at Sofia and snatched the phone right out of her hand.The screen was still unlocked. The vicious words stung Elena's eyes.Adrenaline kicked in. Elena ripped herself away from the guards. She bolted out the door and sprinted to the stairs like a madwoman."Aurora is dead!" Elena's scream pierced through the entire mansion. She didn't call me 'Miss' anymore. She didn't call Isabella 'Madam'. The loyal maid had completely snapped. "You’ve all been played by this wicked liar! Her own mother beat her, locked her in a room, and left her to die! She killed her!"The music cut off. The guests gasped in shock.Nico went ghost wh

Chapter 9

When the verdict dropped, the study was quiet as a grave. No emotion. Just cold, hard business.Isabella was stripped of her title. The Commission wasn’t going to let a fool who got played by her youngest daughter and killed her own heir stay in power as the Donna.She’d be banished to a convent in upstate New York. Banned from East Coast society. Forever.Nico’s inheritance? Suspended indefinitely. If he couldn't even tell his own sister was a snitch, he didn't deserve to run a multi-million dollar mafia empire.And Marco? For letting his family drama hurt the alliance and breeding a Rat, the bosses stripped half his territory. Handed it straight to the Marchettis as payback.They finally paid for their cold blood. I floated there, watching my high-and-mighty family completely crumble.The trial ended. Doors opened. Out in the hall, Sofia was pacing.She lunged at Julian the second he walked out. "Julian!" She blocked his path. "Take me with you! I'm still a Vitali! I can still

Chapter 10

When Elena pushed the door open, Isabella was huddled in a dark corner. The once untouchable Donna was now skin and bones.Her expensive robe hung loosely off her. Her hair was a mess, streaked with harsh gray.Seeing the box in Elena's hands, Isabella shot up like a rocket."Put the box down." She lunged nervously, gripping Elena's arm."Ma'am, I came to say goodbye." Elena ripped her arm away and slammed the bloody box onto the table.Isabella's eyes glued to it. Her lips trembled. She started rambling."Rory was so obedient when she was little. Every time I told her to let her sister win, she listened. She was just being stubborn this time." Isabella gasped for air, wrapping herself in delusions. "She knows Mommy loves her. Right?"I floated there. Watching her squeeze out tiny drops of comfort from the past.Elena gave her no mercy. With the coldest words, she shattered Isabella's pathetic fantasy."She lay on that freezing concrete. Not even a blanket." Elena's voice was sharper

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