Todos los capítulos de After Dumping My Rich Ex, I Married the Don: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 10

The welcome ball was held at the Ferrante family's private club, with champagne, gaming tables, and flowers everywhere.When I walked in wearing a black gown, the whole room went quiet.Everyone looked at me.And at Elena, standing on the stage.She wore a white dress and had her arm through Marco's.My emerald ring was on her right hand.I stopped.Right before she died, my mother had put that ring on my finger herself.She'd said, "Mommy can't stay with you forever, so let this watch over you for me."And now it was on Elena's hand.Marco didn't even look at me.He raised his glass and introduced Elena Vidal to everyone."Elena will be living at the estate from now on."Everyone, please look after her."An older gentleman chimed in right away with a smile."With Mrs. Ferrante and Ms. Vidal running the estate together, the Ferrante family will only grow stronger."Not far away, a woman laughed under her breath."Mrs. Ferrante is so generous, welcoming her husband's true love in person

It was Elena.She still had my mother's emerald on, and she held a dagger in her other hand."You're finally awake."She crouched in front of me and tapped my cheek with the flat of the blade."Yesterday Marco only locked you in the basement, so I thought he couldn't bear to hurt you."Turns out he just didn't want you dying at the estate."I stared at the blade against my cheek."You'd dare kill me?"Elena laughed."Why wouldn't I?""I'm still Marco's wife."If I die, he won't let you get away with it."She threw back her head and laughed as if I'd told a joke."Lia, you still don't get it?"Without Marco's say-so, who could get you out of the Ferrante estate?"My heart sank."You're lying.""Am I?"Why do you think that maid dared to open the basement door?"Without his nod, I couldn't even walk out the front gate of the Ferrante estate."She grabbed my hair and forced my head up."Lia, Marco handed you over himself."He stopped wanting you a long time ago. He just didn't divorce you

Nico didn't take me back to the Ferrante estate.He settled me at a seaside estate owned by the Sanmicheli family.By the time the doctor finished treating my wounds, the sun was up.Outside the window was the blue-gray sea.Waves slapped against the rocks, one after another.Nico stood outside the door the whole time and didn't come in.It wasn't until the doctor left that I called his name."Nico."The door opened softly.I looked at him."Why is there a Moretti family warehouse in that ledger?""Get dressed."I'm taking you to see someone."In the interrogation room in the basement, Damian's right-hand man was tied to a chair.When he saw Nico walk in, he went deathly pale.Nico threw the ledger on the table."Talk."The man gritted his teeth, hesitated, then told us what had happened a year earlier."A year ago, Marco and Damian stole a Sanmicheli family shipment!"They wanted to sell it to a rival family, but the Sanmicheli men tracked it the whole way."Mr. Moretti caught them mo

My father's study had been smashed to pieces.There was only one sheet of paper left on the desk.It was in Marco's handwriting.The note read, "If you want your father alive, come to Warehouse Seven at Port Saint-Louis."Nico read it and tore it in half."It's a trap.""I know.""I'm going with you."I looked up at him.Nico looked at me for a long time. Finally, he took my hand. "Stay close to me."We slipped in along the narrow path on the west side of the port.It was dark and damp there. When I was little, my father wouldn't let me anywhere near it.But I'd always sneak in to catch crabs when the workers weren't looking.I never imagined that years later, I'd take this path to rescue my father.In the abandoned warehouse, my father was tied up next to a crane with a rag stuffed in his mouth.Marco had a gun pressed to his temple.When he saw me, he smiled."Lia, I knew you'd come.""Let my father go.""Sure."He swung the gun toward me."Get me a cargo ship and 20 million.""You d

A year later.The Moretti family business kept growing, and I was busy from dawn to dusk.My father stood beside me, watching one cargo ship after another slowly head out to sea.He asked out of nowhere, "Are you tired?"I smiled."It's a lot easier than waiting around for someone who doesn't love me."My father smiled too.But his eyes were a little red.That year, Marco was stripped of all his power.All of Damian's gunrunning routes had been dismantled.And Elena paid the price for everything she'd done.They'd once tried to destroy the Moretti family.But in the end, what really destroyed them was their own greed.The day Nico officially became Don, the old Church of San Michele was packed.He stood at the front in a black suit.Robert stood behind him.The heads of the great families bowed and pledged their loyalty to the new Don.I sat in the front row.My mother's emerald ring was on my finger.It had been stolen from me, but now it was back where it belonged.After the ceremony