I Endured Her Moans Until I Couldn’t
In the Santoro family, there was one rule: the heir marries a daughter from another powerful Family.
But Alessio Santoro was crazy. He wanted to marry me, a nobody from a flower shop.
He knelt in the family chapel for ten days straight. He even took a bullet fired by his own father, the Don.
All just to walk away from his title and run away with me.
I held him, crying, begging him to stop.
He just smiled and kissed my eyes, wiping my tears. "Don't cry, Thea. As long as I can marry you, it's all worth it."
In the end, the Santoros relented.
But they had one condition: Alessio would still produce the next heir. Just not with me. He had to have a son with Aurelia Rossi.
So I endured. I endured listening to them through the wall, night after agonizing night.
I endured the smell of her perfume on his skin, the sight of her marks on his neck every time he kissed me.
A year later, Aurelia got pregnant. It was a girl.
Alessio begged me, his eyes red. "Just a little longer, Thea."
So I waited another year. Finally, news came. Aurelia was pregnant with a boy.
I thought we could finally leave, finally be free. But then disaster struck.
Aurelia’s daughter had a sudden, violent allergic reaction. Everyone blamed me. They threw me in the cellar and left me to die.
And Alessio? He believed them.
This time, I was the one who gave up. I walked away from everything.