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Chapter Seventeen_ Dinner
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"I don't have a choice."The words hung between us, charged with unspoken tension.Matteo was a master at hiding his emotions, but even I could see the cracks in his calm facade, the tiny shifts that betrayed more than he wanted me to know."Isabella is gone, Valentina. She left. She's not coming back."The more he tried to control the conversation, the more certain I became that there was something deeper simmering beneath his words.What had happened between those two?No matter how much he tried to deny it. Claim he moved on by getting married to me, I could tell he wasn't being completely honest.Not with himself.He loved her.Why did the one truth I knew made my chest tighten?"I don't believe you," I said quietly, my voice firm as I watched his face for a glimpse of his reaction.Matteo's eyes flashed, the barest flicker of irritation crossing his features before he masked it again. If I wasn't looking, I would have missed it.He leaned back in his chair, folding his arms over
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter One_ Meet Matteo Nevarro
*Valentina*"You’ll take Isabella’s place, Valentina. There’s no other choice."My mother's words echoed in my mind as I stood at the gates of the Nevarro Estate, the world as I knew it crumbling beneath my feet.Those iron gates loomed above me, cold and unyielding like the man who owned the. "Your sister is gone. Disappeared without a trace. The little wretch took all the money we had too."The estate was every bit as grand and imposing as I'd imagined, a testament to the wealth and power of the Nevarro family. But there was nothing coming about it.It was a fortress, and I was its latest prisoner."Marry Matteo Nevarro. Have his heirs, and nothing would ever happen to you again."I had never been here before, not even when my father had to come because of his little business with the former Don.Mom always kept me away, insisting that it was unnecessary to let him know he had two daughters.It had been Isabella who was promised to Matteo Nevarro, not me.Never me.But with Isabell
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Two_ He loves her still
*Valentina*"Good morning, Mrs Nevarro." I screamed. As loud as I could and for all to hear. "Mrs Nevaro!!!!" The first rays of dawn seeped through the heavy curtains, casting a dull light across the room. And a lady was staring down at me. Where was I? "Mrs Nevarro!!!" She tried again, and then it all came back to me. Matteo Nevarro, the wedding, the wing. His love for my sister. It was like a never ending dream. My prison. I had barely slept. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Matteo's blue eyes staring at me with a cold and calculating gaze, the weight of his expectations pressing down on me. And now this lady. She was tall and elegant, dressed in a sleek blue dress, her hair pulled back into a neat bun. A tray filled with breakfast - fresh fruit, pancakes, and a cold cup of juice - was at my bedside table. "Good morning, Mrs Nevaro." She said, her voice polite but distant. "I'm glad you've stopped screaming. I'm Caterina, Mr Nevaro asked me to assist you with anythi
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Three_She's mine
Matteo"She's beautiful."Black had always been my favourite colour. Hidden. Silent. Deadly.I felt at home with it, like siblings whose bonds grew stronger every day.Yet in the span of a second, Valentina had upended that as she had every other thing in my life.Heat poured down my body as Valentina mixed various colours in a flat disk, creating a mixture to paint across the canvas. She was colour and chaos, a whirlwind of unpredictable energy I should have stayed away from.I hated it.I hated how she made me question everything. How she made me wish I didn't give up on my search.And I hated how much I wanted her.She wasn't supposed to be mine. She wasn't supposed to be anyone’s.But fate had always been cruel.The art gallery in the estate was small, almost quaint, but it had become a place of refuge for her. A sanctuary where she could lose herself and hide from Caterina, I guessed.Isabella had been the brain behind the idea. She thought it would be nice for me to have a plac
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Four_ I'm ready
*Valentina*"You have to learn the names of everyone that would attend. Who likes who, who hates who." The days blurred together in a haze of unfamiliar routines and uneasy silence. Caterina, true to Maverick words, was always nearby, guilding me through each task like with a strict efficiency even my mom never had. She left no room for conversation. "Isn't that too much? Who they liked or who they hated? How am I supposed to learn that?" I asked. She gave no reply. The next day, a large book on the history of the Nevarros was lying beside me, and I had to learn about each member of the family. By the time the evening of the first event I was supposed to attend with Matteo arrived, I was well grounded on everyone in the mafia world. I was also numb. It felt easier that way. Like I was an actress playing a role, that this wasn't my life. However, standing in front of the mirror in my room, dressed in an elegant black gown that hugged my body in all the right places, I unders
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Five_ Meet Giovanni
Valentina"You look beautiful." The red-haired woman in front of me gushed. "Ravishing, really." Luciana Blythe, a woman known more for her connections than her charm, smiled at me as though I was the most important person in the hall.The thirty years old seductress was the latest wife to the sixty years old Chris Blythe, a man infamous in certain circles. He never attended these kinds of events himself. Rather, he sent whoever was newly married to him to handle whatever unpleasantness waited for him.Sometimes, the wives were able to leave. Sometimes, they weren't.I forced a smile, matching her enthusiasm. "Thank you, ma'am." I added a small, practised giggle. "But you're too kind. You look like an angel yourself."If Caterina was here, she'd have given me a thumbs up for the performance.It didn't take her a minute to find someone more important than me in the grand scheme of things, and she shuttled away.I let out a sigh of relief. "And some say you wouldn't be able to do this
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Six_ The Half sister
Valentina"Is she the one?" Surprise crossed his face when he saw me."Hey! Did you wow him...." His sentence was cut off when I closed the distance and wrapped my hand around his arm. I had learned to read subtle cues in his body language, and tonight, he was on high alert.I didn't need him for anything else than to provide a front for which I would find my sister. He had no right to cheat on me so easily."Valentina, meet Sophia," Maverick said, his voice taking a softer tone that I rarely heard. "My half sister."She looked nothing like him. Her raven black hair cascaded down her back in loose waves, framing a pale face with sharp, striking features. Sophia’s eyes met mine, and for a split second, I saw something flicker in them. Recognition, maybe. But it was gone as quickly as it came."It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Valentina," Sophia said, her voice smooth as velvet. "Maverick has told me so much about you. And so did your sister."I kept my features plain to hide the
The Mafia Don's Redemption: His Darkest Secret Chapter Seven_ He knows what happens to my father
Valentina"This life," Caterina started, her voice clipped with precision. "is not for the faint of heart. As the wife of Matteo Nevarro, your every move will be watched, scrutinized. You must be strong and calculating."I sat in the grand, dimly lit library, my back straight, my hands folded neatly in my lap. Caterina sat across from me, speaking in a measured tone.She knew what happened yesternight, and she didn't approve of any.She didn't approve of my discussion with Luciana.I nodded. "What if I don't want to be cold and calculating?" I asked, my mind not even close to present.Caterina had been relentless, arriving at the stroke of dawn, then proceeding to cover everything from the proper way to address certain men to the subtleties of surviving this harsh world I found myself in.Where were those lessons when I needed to talk to Sophia, Matteo's sister."Then you should consider the next possible option. Divorce."The silence between us stretched, the only sound in the room
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