Máfia's Hated Bride
NIKOLAI VOLKOV
And then, between sobs and broken words, the story continued. Angelo was the only son, and also his parents' favorite.
Then he recounted the most painful details. When Angelo threw himself on top of her to protect her, he absorbed the full impact, dying instantly with broken bones while she walked away with a scar on her face. The mother's grief, transformed into hatred. The exile to the convent at age nine, the childhood hope of becoming a nun, a sacrifice to redeem the life she had "stolen." And then, at eighteen, the silent expulsion back to a house that was not home, to a life of service and invisibility, two years serving her own family as nothing more than a maid.