Todos os capítulos de The Mafia Boss Begged Too Late: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

Mara’s POVThat night, Soren called me from another number.“Mara, I’ve already arranged your father’s transfer. It’s happening tomorrow. All you have to do is apologize to Celeste, and we can put this mess behind us.”I clenched my fist.“It’s too late.”Then came his cold, humorless laugh.“I’ve warned you before. Don’t use your father’s condition to force my hand.”In the background, Celeste’s voice floated through the phone.“Soren, come here. The lights are fading.”His attention immediately shifted.“An ambulance will be at the hospital tomorrow morning. Whether you use it is your choice.”The call ended.A moment later, Soren’s assistant sent me a message.[Mrs. Calloway, Mr. Calloway has instructed that the Voss property be transferred to Ms. Arden. This is the condition for your father’s hospital transfer.]A digital contract appeared beneath it.I opened it.The terms were simple.I had to appear at a press conference and publicly admit that I had spent the past year stalking

Mara’s POVThe day Soren returned to the city, he called me seventeen times.I was at the funeral home sorting through my father’s belongings.I didn’t answer once.That afternoon, his assistant found me.“Mrs. Calloway, Mr. Calloway is waiting for you. Celeste’s gallery can’t open, and the investors are demanding compensation.”I placed my father’s silver watch inside a wooden box.“That has nothing to do with me.”His expression tightened.“Mr. Calloway said if you don’t get to the Voss property within the hour, he’ll file a claim against your father’s estate for breach of contract.”My hand stopped.When my father was alive, his greatest fear had been becoming a burden to Soren.Now Soren was threatening his estate before his funeral was even over.“Let’s go.”By the time we reached the Voss property, Soren was already there. He stood beside the broken wooden table while Celeste held onto his arm.The moment he saw me, he checked his watch.“You’re forty-seven minutes late.”I ignor

Mara’s POVSoren was still standing outside the funeral hall.Celeste was gone.He held my father’s death certificate in one hand, the edges deeply creased from how tightly he was gripping it.“I had the hospital records investigated.”He stepped into my path.“The hospital didn’t stop life-saving treatment because of the unpaid bill. The imported surgical supplies were delivered forty-seven minutes late.”I looked at him.“Are you trying to tell me those forty-seven minutes weren’t necessarily fatal?”“No.”“Then what were you investigating?”Soren said nothing.I finished the thought for him.“You wanted proof.”His eyes shifted.“Proof that you weren’t the one who caused my father’s death.”“That isn’t what I was thinking.”“But everything you’ve done suggests otherwise.”I walked past him.Soren caught my sleeve.His grip was light this time.“The Calloway vault has been opened.”I stopped.“Your father’s belongings are all in the car.”He paused.“I’m also cancelling the transfer

Mara’s POVThree months later, Soren Calloway actually came to Zurich.I was in the middle of restoring a nineteenth-century oil painting when my mentor knocked on the studio door.“Mara, someone’s here to see you.”I looked up.Soren stood at the far end of the corridor. He had lost a noticeable amount of weight.He was still dressed in the black coat I knew too well, but there was something different about him now. He looked tired. Almost worn down.Then I noticed what he was carrying.My father’s old cloth bag.I stepped out of the studio.“Why do you have that?”“You left something behind.” He held out the bag. “I wanted to bring it to you myself.”“You could have mailed it.”“I was afraid it might get lost.”I took the bag.I didn’t invite him inside.Soren’s eyes moved past me toward the restoration table.“You actually became a restorer.”“You knew I wanted to.”His expression stiffened.“I don’t remember you telling me.”“I did.”Three years ago, I’d placed my acceptance letter

Mara’s POVThe day Celeste was brought back to the city, she accused Soren publicly at the airport.“He knew everything.”“He told me Mara would never actually leave him, no matter how much of a scene she made.”“She smashed his cars, stormed his clubs, and humiliated herself because she loved him.”“He said as long as she stayed obsessed with him, she’d never be able to move on.”The interview spread across the city within hours.Then Celeste released their private messages.Soren had written:[Once she finishes making a scene, she’ll come back on her own.][It’s only her account. She won’t starve.][Ignore her father’s condition. We need to break her temper first.]The last message had been sent on the night of my father’s surgery.9:43 P.M.At that exact moment, I had been on my knees in the hospital corridor, calling Soren for the nineteenth time.He never answered.By the next morning, Calloway Arts & Holdings had lost a huge portion of its value.The board called an emergency mee