The Don Made Me Fake My Death, Then Lost Me Forever のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

The next day, Marco came to take me back to the Gariboldi estate.He still remembered my weak stomach. He'd even put a bottle of water and some medicine in the center console for me."Have some."It's the same medicine you used to get from the pharmacy around the corner from St. Stephen's Cathedral. Your blood sugar used to drop, and you couldn't go anywhere without it."I picked up the bottle and suddenly remembered what had happened three years earlier.That day, he had also been the one to send me off to negotiate with the Cordano family.I wouldn't get in the car. I held on to his arm with everything I had.But he pried my fingers off one by one, coaxing me in a low voice. "Chiara, I know you don't want to go."But if you go and negotiate, the Gariboldi family will have room to breathe, and your brother will be safe."Chiara, do it to save the lives of more than 100 people in our family."Before he shut the car door, he promised, "Once things calm down, I'll find a way to arrange a

Before dawn, my room was already filled with white roses.Agatha helped me into the white dress, her tears falling onto the skirt."Miss Chiara, I'll go with you to Switzerland."I told her, "Dante won't allow it."She replied, "I'll beg him."She had barely started to get up when the bodyguard outside the door said coldly, "Shut up! The Don has already shown you mercy. Take your severance pay and go back to the countryside!"Ms. Gariboldi is going to Switzerland under a new name. No one who knows her past is allowed near her!"Push this any further, and you'll be executed for leaking secrets!"Agatha looked at me through her tears."You always have nightmares. Without me, who will be there to talk to you?"I pressed a signed pardon into her hand."Then I'll sleep with the light on."As they led Agatha away, she kept looking back."Miss Chiara, in 48 hours, you have to wake up."I watched them shut the door on her and didn't answer.My parents and Marco had arrived.My mother pressed a

By the time Dante got to the cemetery, it was already dark.He hadn't even changed out of his formal clothes. A white rose from the celebration was still pinned to his chest.Nothing there looked more out of place than his expensive leather shoes crunching across the debris.Marco sat in front of a headstone, holding me.He hadn't let anyone close the coffin again.My mother knelt beside him, wiping my face again and again.My father stood in the wind, looking as though he'd suddenly aged 20 years.Dante walked over and reached out to touch me.Marco turned away, shielding me."Don't touch her."Dante's hand stopped in midair."Give her to me.""She's not yours," Marco said."She lived in my house for three years," Dante said."Those were three years you stole from me," Marco shot back.Marco looked up, his eyes bloodshot."She's my fiancée."Dante stared at him, then asked, "If you really thought of her as your fiancée, why did you personally send her off to negotiate?"Marco stiffene

After sunrise, Isabella arrived at the cemetery.She'd traded her gown for a plain black dress.When she saw me, she stopped outside the cemetery gates and didn't come any closer.Dante had kept watch over me all night, and his eyes were bloodshot."What are you doing here?" Dante asked."Everyone at the estate is waiting for you," Isabella said. Then she added softly, "The celebration is over."Dante looked up."She's dead."Isabella paled."I know."But her death has nothing to do with me.""Nothing to do with you?" Dante echoed.He looked at her as though he were seeing her for the first time.Isabella gripped her sleeves."She bought the cyanide herself."She injected the poison herself."Dante, I didn't make her do it."I only wanted back what belonged to me."In a quiet voice, Dante asked, "What belonged to you?""The title of Donna of the Cordano family," Isabella said. "The floating casino. And you."Dante said, "But that casino was designed for her in the first place."It was

After my funeral, Dante Cordano issued a statement that shocked people on both sides of the law.The statement spelled everything out.The new Don admitted that he had forced Chiara Gariboldi, the daughter of his sworn enemy, to stay by his side by threatening to destroy her family, all so he could rescue the woman he loved. Then, while pretending to dote on Chiara, he had used her as live bait to draw out his enemies.Chiara Gariboldi had never wanted the Cordano family's power, nor had she ever betrayed her own family.Her death wasn't an act of loyalty to any man.The Don, her former love, and her own family had driven her to it, step by step.The statement spread everywhere.The eulogy Marco had prepared for me became a joke.The people who had once praised him for swallowing his pride for the family now cursed him for selling out his fiancée for profit.The council of elders joined forces to remove my father, forcing him to hand over all his power and leaving him idle at home.My