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The Mafia Don's Redemption Chapter Thirty One
Valentina*The night of the attack*I tried my best not to breathe.Each shallow inhale made my ribs scream in protest, but I couldn't afford to be caught.Not now.My mind was reeling, heart hammering in my chest as I pressed myself against the stone wall, my sense of touch the only thing keeping me going. The shadows were my only protection.I gripped the rough surface, fingers digging into the stone to steady myself.The man was close. Too close.He had tried to get me to go with him, smuggle me out of the estate, under the cover of night, promising false safety.But everything about his words was wrong, from the cold gleam in his eyes to the way his hands had lingered too long when he grabbed me.Desperation to find Isabella had led me to this mess."Come now," He had whispered harshly, pulling me down the hall, his grip like iron around my wrist. "If you make a sound..."The hidden threat wasn't lost to me. Not when he pressed the side of his waist that held his gun to my back.I
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Valentina.Matteo made me go to therapy. Or rather, he brought the therapist to the estate and made sure I was okay with it.Therapy helped.The sound of the gun, me hitting that tree multiple times, the man.... I was able to keep it at the back of my mind for the meantime."What do you think about another date?" He asked the moment he walked into the room, smelling like the new oud scent I had gotten him.I paused, stirring the tea in my cup. His question hung in the air, and I wasn't sure how to respond.A date?It's been over a month since we went on our last date.And it hadn't been a traditional date in any sense."A date?" I repeated, more to fill the silence than because I didn't understand him. I looked up to meet Matteo's dark eyes and intense gaze, the kind that made me feel like he could see every thought I had."Yes," He said, leaning back in his chair, his eyes scanning me in that familiar, possessive way. "It's important."That gave me pause.None of our other dates had
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Valentina."Isabella was still the better choice."Matteo's body stiffened beside me. His fists clenched at his sides, his jaw hardened, and I could feel the tension rolling off him in waves.I understood why he hadn't told me about his father in the first place.It wasn't because he wanted to keep me away from him.He wanted to keep him away from me.Matteo's eyes darkened, his usually calm and impassive exterior slipping away as his father's words cut into him, into us.If word got out that his father didn't accept me....The room felt suffocating, every second stretching out painfully as I waited for Matteo to tell us to leave.When he finally spoke, each word was like a shard of ice."Isabella might have been the right choice for you..." Matteo started. "But she was never the right choice for me. And you know it."Pedro's cold smile didn't waver. "In terms of politics and compatibility, Isabella was the right choice. You would have learnt to love her."Matteo stepped forward, putt
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I felt like I was drowning.The tension in the car had been palpable, like an invisible force pressing against me from all sides. Matteo had sat beside me, his face a mask of silence, his thoughts locked away behind those blue eyes.No words had passed between us after Luca’s warning."Trust no one, Valentina."It echoed in my mind like a sinister chant, planting seeds of doubt and fear deep inside me. But it was too late to turn back now.Matteo had gone straight to his study the moment we returned to the house earlier, ensuring I was safely in my room, secluded from the chaos that swirled around us. He hadn't uttered a single word about the strife between him and his father. He was a man who hid his pain behind a wall of ice, yet I could feel it rolling off him.Even now, as we stepped out of the car and approached the museum for Giovanni’s birthday party, that tension clung to him like a second skinHis hand hovered over the small of my back, guiding me through the lavish entrance.
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"But I need to talk to my sister."I always thought that when I saw my sister, I would be relieved - ready to hand Matteo back to her and return to my old life.Continue my life as it was before.The air in the room became thick, suffocating, as I stared at Isabella. The one who had disappeared a week before her wedding with my husband.I had gotten her letter, almost gotten killed because I thought she had sent another, yet standing there, with her blond hair curled up in ringlets which framed her face, a mixture of shock and confusion overwhelmed me."You... you're here?" I whispered the question, my voice barely audible.Was I imagining things?Isabella nodded slowly, her eyes flicking between me and Matteo, uncertainty evident in her expression. The man she was supposed to marry, the man she was in love with, was holding me to himself.She looked nervous, like someone who had just walked into a dangerous situation and was unsure how to navigate it."I don't have much time," Isabel
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"Caterina."Everything Isabella had told me yesterday weighed heavily on my chest, pushing down with each breath I took.Matteo had stayed away from me, not prodding to know what she had said, yet watching me with enough concern to make me know he cared.I couldn't let him see my unravelling emotions. There was no way he would understand, not yet."I need answers." I could barely recognize the rasp in my voice as I walked out of the bedroom that morning, Matteo sprawled in bed, still asleep.I stormed through the hallways, barely noticing the new assembly of guards as I searched for Caterina, my housekeeper.She'd been with the mafia circle for long. She had to know something about this Dante family, something I could use against him so he could leave my sister alone.If it's monetary..."Caterina!!" I called out as I walked into the study.She ceased writing immediately, sliding her glasses up her nose as she watched me coke closer. Her expression was neutral, but I could tell she no
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"Stand in position."The air was cold, crisp with the early morning chill, and I could see my breath as it escaped in soft puffs.My hands trembled, not just from the temperature but from the nervous energy building inside me.Matteo stood across from me, his arms crossed over his broad chest, his bored face watching my every movement."Relax your shoulders," He instructed, his voice calm but firm, as though this was something he did every day. "If you're too tense, you won't be able to move fast enough."I nodded, trying to loosen up as I held the gun in front of me, the weight of it foreign in my hands. I'd never even thought about holding a weapon as my first choice of defence, let alone using one, until now.But after what Isabella had said about Dante, about him holding her hostage, the threat he would pose to me once I finally got her, I needed to learn how to fight - both with my hands and with a gun.Matteo had been surprisingly patient, completely aloof as he watched me. Thou
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"I killed him."That revelation hit me like a punch to the guy, freezing me in place, especially after the note Isabella had left for me.I stared at Matteo, barely able to process his words.My heart was pounding so loudly that it drowned out the sounds of the forest around us."You.... killed him?" I repeated, my voice shaky, hoping I had misheard.Hoping it was a mistake. A joke.Matteo's eyes were on me, his expression hard, unreadable. The playful man who had been teaching me how to shoot moments ago was gone. And in his place stood a stranger, someone more colder, someone dangerous."Yes." He said simply, as if it was a matter of fact, like discussing the weather.The note from Isabella burned holes into my palm.Did Isabella know who the fuck she was staying with now?My mind raced with questions, but one stood out.Why hadn't anyone told me this before?"Why?" I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.He took a deep breath, his gaze never leaving mine. "Because Dante Ricci was
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Valentina.Matteo woke up twelve hours after his surgery. I was there, standing in the corner of the room, shrouded in the shadows cast by the dim hospital lighting. I'd stayed long after the others had been ushered out... Valerie, Lorenzo, Ethan... all of them trying to coax me into taking a moment to rest, to eat, to breathe.But I couldn't leave him.When his eyes finally fluttered open, confusion clouded his expression. Those beautiful eyes wandered, tracing the IV in his arm, the bandages around his neck, and the faint rhythm of the heart monitor beside him.He looked so lost.I wanted to rush at him, to grab his hand, to tell him he was safe. But my feet felt like lead, my chest tightening with an ache that I didn't know how to express.So I stayed where I was, watching him from afar. The staff couldn't believe I was the same woman who had almost thrown herself on his bed so I would be wheeled in with him.Matteo murmured something... a weak, hoarse sound I couldn't make out..
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Valentina."Matteo!" The scream ripped from my throat, raw and primal, echoing off the walls. My hands trembled as I pressed them harder against the gaping wound on his neck. Blood seeped between my fingers, warm and sticky, staining my skin and my soul."No, no, no," I choked out, my voice cracking as I leaned over him. "Matteo, stay with me. Please, stay with me."His face was getting paler with every second that passed, his chest rising and falling in those shallow, uneven rhythms.I pressed harder against the wound, ignoring the way my hands shook, ignoring the tears streaming down my face. "You're not leaving me," I whispered fiercely. "Do you hear me? You're not allowed to leave me!""Somebody, help!"Anybody.Isabella stood near the edge of the room, arms crossed and face unreadable. Her lips twisted into that maddening, faint smirk as Luca’s... there had to be his... men darted around her, their boots pounding against the floor.The moment the faint wail of sirens broke thro
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Valentina.The silence after a gunshot could be deafening, a void that swallows everything. No one ever talked about how it felt to pull the trigger that took a life, even if said life had been dead long before you pulled that trigger.I stood there, my arms hanging limp by the sides, the gun slipping from my hand to clatter on the blood-streaked floor. My chest heaved with shallow breaths as I stared at her... our mother, slumped and motionless.So quiet in the face of death.Her lifeless eyes stared back at me, now glassy and unseeing. Blood pooled around her head, soaking into the floor, a dark halo of guilt I'd painted myself."No," I whispered, the word tasting foreign and hollow.My knees buckled, but I didn't fall. My body was rooted, trapped in this moment, as if time itself refused to let me leave.What had I done? From the corner of my vision, Isabella shifted. Her face fixed with a mask of indifference, though her lips were curling ever so slightly into a smirk that sent
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Matteo.The metallic tang of blood filled my nostrils, sharp and suffocating. Luca's knee drove deeper into my chest, pinning me to the blood-slick floor. The knife in his hand pressed harder against my throat, its edge biting into flesh with a cold, merciless precision.Warmth spread across my neck, the metallic smell sharp in the air. I gasped, the air a fleeting luxury as my body thrashed instinctively beneath his weight."Look at you," Luca sneered, his voice low, dripping with venom. "The great Matteo Nevarro reduced to this. Pathetic." His face hovered just above mine, his grin unhinged, his green eyes alight with triumph. My vision blurred, edges darkening as the oxygen slipped away. My hands clawed at his wrists, my fingers trembling with desperation, but his grip remained unyielding.The lunatic was truly going to kill me.Then, as the world began to darken, her face appeared. Valentina. Her laughter, light and rare, the way her lips curled despite the weight of her own
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Matteo."I'll kill you with my own hands, Luca."My breath came in sharp, controlled bursts as I squared off with Luca. His men surrounded us, their guns trained on me, and Lorenzo’s men who had survived the chaos outside. The air in the room was electric, thick with tension, and the metallic tang of blood."I should have known," I continued before he said anything again, keeping my voice low yet steady. "I should've known you'd never stop until you destroyed everything."Luca had always wanted what wasn't meant for him. Even from a younger age, when he had come to live with my father and I, alongside his mother and sister, he had wanted everything I had.Every toy.Every achievement.He simply wanted to have it all. And every single time he got it then he destroyed it afterwards. He burnt the toys, he tore the certificates, he told the lesson teachers to leave or he'll scar them."Destroyed?" Luca echoed, a laugh bursting from him, dark and sharp. "You're standing in front of the onl
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Matteo."I hate you. Do you hear me? I HATE YOU."My hands had lingered on the cold steel of the door handle when she screamed those words, the echo of the lock sliding into place still ringing in my ears.It wasn't a decision I had taken lightly.Locking Valentina up in a room with her psycho of a mother to keep her safe was probably the dumbest thing I had ever done, but it was worth it. If it gave her an opportunity to leave here safely, then I had to believe that.My boots scraped against the concrete as I forced myself to move, step by step, away from that door. Each step felt heavier than the last, weighed down by a mix of guilt and resolve.Fuck.Had I done the right thing?No. I couldn't afford to think about that now, so I pushed the thought aside, my jaw tightening as I straightened my posture. There was no time for doubt.Luca was out there, and every second spent questioning my decision was just a second wasted. When this was over, I would fall to her feet, kiss it, even
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Valentina.The words echoed in my head like a gunshot, deafening and final. Pedro Nevarro is dead.My hands trembled as I lowered my gun, my mind racing. Pedro Nevarro was the father to Matteo, Luca, and Sophia Nevarro. An institution that defies all forces and came back stronger to rule his gang with his heir. If Luca had managed to kill him...I didn’t finish the thought. I couldn’t. In front of me, Isabella’s smirk widened, her eyes gleaming with a twisted sort of satisfaction. She confused me most times. The woman who had changed within minutes of our departure, then helped me by giving me clues and all..."Well," she said lightly, brushing imaginary dust off her sleeve, "it seems our dear family is shrinking faster than expected."But irrespective of all she had done for me, I didn't know her. Didn't understand her. Didn't trust her.So I shot her a glare, my chest tightening with fury. "Shut up, Isabella." But she didn’t. Of course, she didn’t. She was much more talkati
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Valentina. "Luca is here!" Someone shouted from somewhere in the forsaken warehouse, the words cutting through the distant gunfire like a blade.Chaos erupted around us. The echoes of bullets ricocheted through the warehouse, sharp and unforgiving. The air felt heavy with the tang of metal and sweat, pressing down on me with every breath I took.My heart thundered in my chest as I turned to Matteo. His face was a mask of focus, his jaw clenched tightly as he scanned the room for threats. “We have to leave,” he said, his voice low but urgent. “Now.” “No!” I yelled, my hands trembling as I gestured to the figure tied up on the floor. “We can’t just leave her here!” My mother’s glare burned into me from where she sat, bruised and bound, as though this entire mess was somehow my fault. “She doesn’t want our help,” Matteo snapped, his voice as cold as steel. I stared at him, disbelief twisting in my gut. “That doesn’t matter! I’m not leaving her!” The gunfire grew louder, clo
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Valentina.The sharp scent of gasoline and damp concrete filled my nose as we walked through the narrow corridor of the abandoned warehouse.The walls loomed close, painted with age and grime, while faint echoes of dripping water amplified the unease curling in my stomach.I had felt it the entire drive here... that tightening in my chest, the nausea rolling under my ribs. It wasn’t just nerves. It was dread. A tangible warning that something terrible was waiting for us. And yet, I couldn’t bring myself to turn back. Matteo stalked ahead, his shoulders tense, his gun held low but ready. Alessia flanked the rear, her eyes scanning the shadows, every muscle in her body coiled for action. The rest of the men were intertwined with us, close enough to know they were around yet far enough that I couldn't see them.We moved in silence, connected only by the whispers of Lorenzo’s voice in our earpieces, feeding us directions and updates. “Five guards on the north side, Matteo,” Lorenzo
