His Love and Devotion Are All Lies
Washing Wheat
On the day I discover that Ignazio Corelli, who is my husband and the Don of the Corelli famiglia, is cheating on me for the first time, I file for divorce and buy a plane ticket to leave.
But he locks me in the master bedroom of the villa for five days and uses up three whole bottles of lubricant.
After that, he explains with a helpless expression, "Carlotta, my enemies set me up and drugged me. That's why I spent one night with Chiara Linetti. You have to forgive me."
The second time, I see him accompanying Chiara to a prenatal checkup at the hospital. Once again, I ask for a divorce.
His eyes turn bloodshot as he pins me against the wall. "Honey, if you want a divorce, it'll only happen over my dead body. You have to trust me. Chiara is a spy my enemies planted. I need to keep her under control and make her my double agent.
"It won't take long. We just need to wait until after she gives birth. I swear that once the time comes, I'll send her away immediately."
But later, Chiara suffers a miscarriage. Everyone suspects that I am secretly responsible.
Chiara grabs my throat like a madwoman and shrieks, "If you're angry, take it out on me! Why did you have to harm my child?"
Even Ignazio looks at me with heavy disappointment in his eyes. "I told you to wait a little longer. Why did you have to make a move against my child?"
With that, he orders his men to lock me in the basement where he usually imprisons his enemies.
"You can come out when you've truly reflected on your mistakes," he says.
Curled up in a corner, I send a message that will erase itself once it is read from my phone.
I write, "Destroy all records of my childbirth. Once the paperwork is complete, take me and the child away."