All Chapters of My Husband the Don Cheated to Beat a Prophecy, So I Vanished: Chapter 11 - Chapter 18

Leonardo went still."What are you talking about?""When you were 18, your father died of an illness. The Rizzo family had no leader, and your brother was still in school in Europe." Her thin fingers moved slowly across the table. "You wrote your father's will yourself. Call it forgery, call it strategy. Either way, you became the Don."And later, Julia's parents took the bullets meant for you, and you knelt in their blood and swore you would never betray her."But you turned right around and got tangled up with another woman."She looked up at him, her stare unflinching."I only had to look at who you both were to see how it would end."The Page of Swords. The person you're trying so hard to save is the one you'll lose. That wasn't a prophecy from God, Leonardo. You pushed her away yourself."He took half a step back, his throat tight."How could you know any of this...?""Too many people in this city come to me for a reading," she said mildly. "Men from the family, men from the crews

He looked down at the pastry, his voice low. "I ran out on my family too. My father married someone new. My stepmother is good to me, but every time I see her sitting in my mother's chair..."He didn't finish."I want to go back," he said suddenly. "But... not by myself."He turned to look at me, uncertainty flickering in his pale gray eyes."Nina, you remind me of my mother. Not in the way you look. There's a kind of... calm about you. Like still water with so much beneath the surface."You check the door three times every night."You never use your real name with the customers."When you mail something, you address it to a cemetery in Chicago. But the name you use isn't yours."He took a breath."I called someone from the firm to look into it. That cemetery in Chicago has no record of anyone named Nina. Am I right?"I stopped sifting the flour."I'm sorry. That was out of line." He looked down, gripping his apron. "But I know you're running from something. That sadness in your eyes..

The side window of the bakery shattered from the outside.Glass sprayed across the floor, and someone came through the frame and landed hard.She got up, her hair wild and her face pale. Her pregnancy was just beginning to show.Sophia.She gripped a knife, and her crazed eyes swept the room before locking on me."I followed you here." Her voice was so shrill it almost cracked. "You threw me away just to chase this bitch?!""I bribed one of Leonardo's guards after he locked me away. He told me he'd found you through a facial-recognition broker and was flying to Zurich. I followed his jet, then paid a local driver to watch this bakery for me."She came at me, the blade catching the morning light.Leonardo instinctively lunged to get between us, but Elias was faster.He pulled me behind him and snatched a baking sheet from the counter, holding it in front of him as a shield.Her knife screeched across the metal, sending up sparks."Elias!"The blade caught his arm. Blood welled up, runni

Leonardo turned to look at me, and something behind his eyes broke."You had this set up all along?""Not me," I said. "Him."He's faster than you." I looked at Leonardo and spoke evenly. "It took you 91 days to find me. It took him three hours to find you."Leonardo's men were already taking positions by the door. One had drawn his gun.Leonardo stood in the middle of the living room, looking at me as he drew his backup gun from his waistband.He aimed it at the door. Not at me.His voice was low and wild, like the growl of a cornered wolf. "He thinks he can take you from me?""Leonardo, don't do anything stupid.""Stupid?" He looked at me and laughed. "I've done plenty of stupid things. Betraying you. Pushing you. Killing our child. Which one of those wasn't stupid?"He came over, set the backup gun down on the coffee table, and drew another one.His own sidearm. He put it to his temple."You leave, I die."I looked at him.He wasn't putting on a show.His hand shook, and his eyes we