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Too Late For The Mafia Don's Regret
Mafia I kept a ledger to track my marriage to the most feared man in Chicago.
Loyalty started at one hundred. Every time Dante looked through me to stare at his mistress, Isabella, I subtracted one. Every time he left our bed to answer her calls, I subtracted five.
The day the score hit zero, I was lying in a secret clinic, bleeding out.
I had been in a severe accident. I was pregnant, and the hemorrhage was critical.
But the nurse, eyes red with weeping, told me they couldn't give me the blood transfusion I needed.
Dante had ordered the clinic's entire supply of O-negative blood to be reserved for Isabella.
She had a bruised knee and was "in shock." He prioritized her comfort over his unborn child's life.
I lost the baby.
I left the ledger on his desk with a final note: *You bought her comfort with your heir’s blood. Score: 0.* Then, I vanished.
Two years later, Dante found me at a gala in Seattle.
The ruthless Capo dei Capi, a man who never bowed to anyone, fell to his knees in front of hundreds of people. He begged, tears streaming down his face, claiming he had made a mistake, that I was his only true love.
I looked at him, then at Julian, the man standing beside me who treated me like a queen.
I pulled my hand away from Dante’s grip and smiled coldly.
"Apologies don't fix dead things, Mr. Moretti. Go back to your grave." His Confession, My Shattered World
Modern My boyfriend, Finn, and my best friend, Carly, were my entire world. After a childhood drifting through foster homes, they were the family I' d always craved, my anchors in a stormy sea. I thought I was the luckiest girl alive.
Then, on the morning of my 23rd birthday, I stumbled upon a private video on Finn' s laptop. It was titled "My Confession."
He wasn't confessing his love for me. He was crying, his voice cracking as he admitted he was in love with Carly.
He called her a vibrant supernova, an electric current. He described our relationship as a comfort, and me as a fragile burden he couldn't bear to hurt.
My found family had found each other, and I was the inconvenient truth standing in their way. The two people who had pulled me from the shadows were now the ones casting me back into them. They had given me so much; this was the one thing I could give back.
Their freedom.
So while they planned my surprise party, I quietly accepted a multi-year research contract at the ends of the earth. I was going to the Arctic to disappear. No Second Chances For Cheaters
Billionaires Tonight was our tenth wedding anniversary. My husband, tech mogul Damon Ayers, booked the city's most expensive hotel for a lavish party.
He pulled me close for the cameras, whispering how much he loved me. A moment later, I watched him use the private code we developed together to flirt with his mistress, Kandy, right in front of me.
He left our party, lying about a work emergency, to meet her. The anniversary fireworks he set off? They were for her. The next day, she showed up at our house, pregnant. I watched through the window as a slow smile spread across his face. A few hours later, she sent me a photo of him on one knee, proposing to her.
He had always told me he wasn't ready for a child with me. For ten years, I was the perfect, supportive wife. I was also the cybersecurity expert who built the architecture that saved his company. He seemed to have forgotten that part.
As my car headed to the airport for my planned disappearance, we stopped at a red light. Next to us was a Rolls-Royce, decorated for a wedding. Inside were Damon and Kandy, in a tuxedo and a white dress. Our eyes met through the glass. His face went pale with shock.
I simply threw my phone out the window and told the driver to go. Lost Love, Bitter Victory
Romance My wife, Olivia, and I had what I thought was the perfect life, a vibrant canvas of shared dreams and artistic ambition.
But beneath the surface, a shadow lingered: her unexplained infertility, a result of an accident years ago-my fault-that filled me with a guilt I carried like a stone.
I watched her endless cycles of hope, the IVF treatments we endured, believing we were fighting for our miracle baby together.
Then, a single photograph arrived, shattering my world: Olivia, glowing with maternal pride, kneeling before a three-year-old boy who was undeniably hers. On the back, two words scrawled in messy handwriting: Our son.
The fertility struggles, my guilt-it was all a monstrous, suffocating lie, a performance designed to keep me blind.
I couldn' t breathe, trapped in her beautiful deception, so I planned my escape, a desperate attempt to vanish from a life that was never truly mine.
After I "disappeared," a new life began, quiet and anonymous, painted in the solitude of the Oregon coast.
But the past refused to stay buried, returning with the salt on the wind, a ghost with haunted eyes and the cruel truth of consequences.
Now, she stands before me, broken and desperate, having lost everything-her child, her lover-in the wake of my strategic vanishing act.
She believes my "death" was her fault, the ultimate price for her lies, unaware that the real architect of her downfall was closer than she ever imagined.
I am not the man she married. I am a stranger forged in betrayal, ready to confront the wreckage she created. Rebirth: A Wife's Bitter Reckoning
Modern The piercing wail of an ambulance siren was the first thing I heard.
I was lying on the living room carpet, the scent of dust and cheap air freshener in my nose.
A few feet away, my younger sister, Chloe, clutched an empty bottle of pills, feigning unconsciousness.
It was a pathetic performance, but it had destroyed my life once before.
This was the day I received my acceptance letter and full scholarship to the nation' s most prestigious art school-the day my life was supposed to begin.
Instead, guided by my mother' s frantic sobs and my father' s angry accusations- "Ava, how can you be so selfish? Your sister is trying to kill herself because of you!" -I buckled.
My fiancé, Mark, whispered poison: "What' s a scholarship compared to your sister' s life?"
I believed them.
I gave it all up, watching as my scholarship was transferred to Chloe.
The betrayal festered.
A month later, I discovered Mark hadn' t failed his exams; he and Chloe had plotted to steal my future.
When I confronted them, they locked me in my art studio and set it on fire.
I survived, disfigured and broken, only to be forced into a brutal marriage where I eventually died.
But now, I was back.
Seventeen again.
Whole.
The future they stole, once again within my grasp.
Chloe fluttered her eyelids, a flash of triumph in her eyes as they met mine.
This time, the burning rage had cooled into something harder, sharper.
They thought this was their victory.
They had no idea it was just the beginning of my revenge. The Price of a Billion-Dollar Love
Billionaires The private jet' s hum was supposed to drown out the silence, but it only amplified the heavy dread in the cabin.
Across the table, my husband, Ethan Vance, watched me with cold, unblinking eyes, his once-loved face a mask of cruelty.
"Sign it, Chloe." His low, calm voice cut through the air.
The document lay between us, a single sheet of paper that would transfer my half of our billion-dollar company to him-and to her, Scarlett Hayes, his long-lost ex, the ghost haunting my marriage.
My hands trembled, but it wasn't just the document.
Through the open jet door, his bodyguards held my sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, her face pale with terror, thousands of feet in the air.
"Scarlett needs this," he' d said when I begged, "You were just holding her place, Chloe. It's time to give it back."
His words were a physical blow, shattering illusions of the life we'd built.
My love, my security, my entire world-all just a temporary placeholder.
Watching Lily' s silent tears stream down her face, I knew he was using my deepest love as a weapon.
My signature was a shaky scrawl, a testament to my broken spirit.
"There. It's done. Now let her go."
A flicker of satisfaction crossed his face.
Then, the guards tightened their grip, and with a brutal shove, pushed my sister out the open door.
Her scream tore away with the wind, leaving only a horror too profound to process.
He had promised to let her go, and he had murdered her instead.
In the ensuing darkness, as my world fractured, a terrible clarity sliced through the pain: I was never the love of his life; I was just the bandage for a wound he never wanted to heal.
But as the jet descended, a defiant spark ignited in the ashes of my heart.
I would survive.
I would escape.
And he would pay. Lost Love, Found Self: A New Beginning
Romance My life was a perfectly tailored garment, every seam in place, my marriage to tech mogul Ethan Vance the central, flawless stitch.
Then, at my triumphant New York Fashion Week debut, I found him with a woman I didn' t know, his arm around her, her hand clutching his.
She was Willow Vance, his long-lost cousin, a fragile waif who, he explained, had nowhere else to go.
She moved into our penthouse, a subtle manipulator who turned every minor mishap into a dramatic performance of victimhood, always with Ethan as her loyal defender.
I watched, helpless, as my husband dismissed my concerns, publicly shamed me, and defended her manipulative acts, making me the villain in my own home.
When a package of provocative lingerie arrived, addressed to me but with a note clearly meant for Ethan, I knew it was Willow' s ultimate power play to shatter our trust.
I confronted her, exposing her performance, and for a moment, Ethan finally saw through her act.
But nothing truly changed.
My family, my life' s work, everything I held dear was weaponized against me, twisted and contorted until I was left with nothing but emptiness.
I finally walked away, choosing freedom over a life built on lies and betrayal.
Little did I know, the fight was far from over. The Day He Lost Everything
Romance I rushed home, excited for our anniversary, my mind full of plans for our perfect life, our growing family.
Then the fall happened.
The hospital confirmed the miscarriage.
But the real blow came when I saw my husband, Ethan, not by my side, but tenderly looking at another woman, his ex, Liv, in the very same hospital.
Worse, the anniversary ring he'd promised me shone brightly on her finger.
He covered his tracks with casual lies about "late client meetings" and a fabricated "startup" with his friends, who all gleefully participated in his deception.
His mother even called Liv his "honorary little sister," while telling me I was "too suspicious."
He came home, oblivious, asking for snacks and telling me to rest because I was pregnant—the baby I'd just lost alone.
How could the man I loved, the father of our lost child, be so utterly blind, so heartless?
The truth settled in, cold and sharp.
All their lies, the endless gaslighting, the twisted loyalty of his family and friends—it was an entire world built on my pain.
I packed my bags.
My new job in Austin was calling.
I left him the divorce papers, the rings, and a voicemail revealing the truth: there was no baby for him to be a father to.
Not anymore.
I was free. The Jilted Heiress's San Francisco Escape
Romance My world was finally clicking back into place.
After three agonizing years, my fiancé, Chris Vance, the ex-CIA operative I adored, was finally back from his top-secret mission.
Our dream wedding at my Wyoming ranch was set, a perfect life ahead.
Until I stumbled upon his old satellite phone.
A hidden audio file revealed a woman's voice, and then *his*, casually discussing a 'New York heiress' and a two-year-old son named Leo.
That three-year 'mission'? A perfectly crafted lie.
He'd been playing happy families, while I counted the days.
The ultimate betrayal? His paramour, Maria, soon arrived with their son, Leo, and shamelessly framed me for poisoning the child with an allergy, casting me as the jealous villain right in front of him.
His eyes, once filled with love, now held doubt.
How could he betray me so utterly, then watch it happen again?
The man I loved was a stranger, and I was left with a shattered dream and a public accusation.
I took off my engagement ring, left it, and fled.
My godfather offered an escape: San Francisco, and a quiet stranger named Noah Chen.
Was it a lifeline or another cage?
Could I ever trust again after such a devastating lie? Avenge My Trapped Fairy Mother
Xuanhuan Here’s the translation of the text into English:
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Mother is a fairy from the heavens.
For the sake of Father, she stayed in the mortal world, creating a beautiful tale.
But only I know that Mother was stripped of her feathered robe, the source of all her powers, and was forced to remain in the human realm.
At the age of seven, I knocked on Mother’s door in the dead of night.
She was barely clothed, her body limp, lying in the arms of Emperor Father, biting her lip in humiliation.
She held me and said, "Ali, go quickly, and never come back."
Later, she lay in my arms, covered in blood, laughing with wild abandon.
"Ali, Mother can only help you this far."
"The rest of the journey, you must walk on your own."
I held Mother’s lifeless body, gripping the small knife tightly in my hand.
"Mother, don’t worry."
"I will soon send them down to accompany you."
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Contract With The Devil: Love In Shackles
Dorine Koestler I watched my husband sign the papers that would end our marriage while he was busy texting the woman he actually loved.
He didn't even glance at the header. He just scribbled the sharp, jagged signature that had signed death warrants for half of New York, tossed the file onto the passenger seat, and tapped his screen again.
"Done," he said, his voice devoid of emotion.
That was Dante Moretti. The Underboss. A man who could smell a lie from a mile away but couldn't see that his wife had just handed him an annulment decree disguised beneath a stack of mundane logistics reports.
For three years, I scrubbed his blood out of his shirts. I saved his family's alliance when his ex, Sofia, ran off with a civilian.
In return, he treated me like furniture.
He left me in the rain to save Sofia from a broken nail. He left me alone on my birthday to drink champagne on a yacht with her. He even handed me a glass of whiskey—her favorite drink—forgetting that I despised the taste.
I was merely a placeholder. A ghost in my own home.
So, I stopped waiting. I burned our wedding portrait in the fireplace, left my platinum ring in the ashes, and boarded a one-way flight to San Francisco.
I thought I was finally free. I thought I had escaped the cage.
But I underestimated Dante.
When he finally opened that file weeks later and realized he had signed away his wife without looking, the Reaper didn't accept defeat.
He burned down the world to find me, obsessed with reclaiming the woman he had already thrown away. Marrying His Rival: The Ex-Fiancé's Nightmare
Moria Anninger I was the "Caged Canary" of the underworld, a biological asset designed to merge two crime families. My fiancé, Bryant Barnes, didn't love me. He loved the power I brought, and he loved his mistress, Kalia.
The night Kalia broke into my penthouse and stomped on my hand, crushing the bones and my fashion career, Bryant didn't help me. He told the police she was my guest and warned me not to embarrass him with a cast.
That was just the beginning. When Kalia lied about feeling unsafe, Bryant dangled me off a balcony. When she faked a kidnapping, he locked me in an industrial freezer for six hours until I turned blue. And when I fell into the marina, he swam right past me to save her, leaving me to drown in the freezing water.
He destroyed my body and my dignity for a woman who was stealing my designs and faking a pregnancy. He thought I was just a broken obligation he could discard.
But he made a fatal mistake. He didn't make sure I was dead.
I dragged myself out of the water and made a call to his greatest rival.
On the night of our grand merger, I walked onto the stage wearing royal blue instead of white. I rolled up my sleeve to reveal the scars he gave me, looked him dead in the eye, and grabbed the microphone.
"I hereby terminate my engagement to Bryant Barnes. And I am proud to announce my betrothal to the true King of this city." The Unwanted Bride Becomes The City's Queen
Breeze I was the spare daughter of the Vitiello crime family, born solely to provide organs for my golden sister, Isabella.
Four years ago, under the codename "Seven," I nursed Dante Moretti, the Don of Chicago, back to health in a safe house. I was the one who held him in the dark.
But Isabella stole my name, my credit, and the man I loved.
Now, Dante looked at me with nothing but cold disgust, believing her lies.
When a neon sign crashed down on the street, Dante used his body to shield Isabella, leaving me to be crushed under twisted steel.
While Isabella sat in a VIP suite crying over a scratch, I lay broken, listening to my parents discuss if my kidneys were still viable for harvest.
The final straw came at their engagement gala. When Dante saw me wearing the lava stone bracelet I had worn in the safe house, he accused me of stealing it from Isabella.
He ordered my father to punish me.
I took fifty lashes to my back while Dante covered Isabella's eyes, protecting her from the ugly truth.
That night, the love in my heart finally died.
On the morning of their wedding, I handed Dante a gift box containing a cassette tape—the only proof that I was Seven.
Then, I signed the papers disowning my family, threw my phone out the car window, and boarded a one-way flight to Sydney.
By the time Dante listens to that tape and realizes he married a monster, I will be thousands of miles away, never to return. Marrying The Rival: My Ex-Husband's Despair
Fonz Nadherny I stood outside my husband's study, the perfect mafia wife, only to hear him mocking me as an "ice sculpture" while he entertained his mistress, Aria.
But the betrayal went deeper than infidelity.
A week later, my saddle snapped mid-jump, leaving me with a shattered leg. Lying in the hospital bed, I overheard the conversation that killed the last of my love.
My husband, Alessandro, knew Aria had sabotaged my gear. He knew she could have killed me.
Yet, he told his men to let it go. He called my near-death experience a "lesson" because I had bruised his mistress's ego.
He humiliated me publicly, freezing my accounts to buy family heirlooms for her. He stood by while she threatened to leak our private tapes to the press.
He destroyed my dignity to play the hero for a woman he thought was a helpless orphan.
He had no idea she was a fraud.
He didn't know I had installed micro-cameras throughout the estate while he was busy pampering her.
He didn't know I had hours of footage showing his "innocent" Aria sleeping with his guards, his rivals, and even his staff, laughing about how easy he was to manipulate.
At the annual charity gala, in front of the entire crime family, Alessandro demanded I apologize to her.
I didn't beg. I didn't cry.
I simply connected my drive to the main projector and pressed play. I Married My Ex-Fiancé's Ruthless Older Brother
EVA PINK I was a Vitiello, sold to the Morettis to secure an alliance. For five years, I quietly loved Dante, counting down the minutes until our wedding at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
But it ended with a single text three minutes before the ceremony.
"Stay at the apartment. Sofia is awake. Don't make a scene."
His ex-girlfriend, the love of his life, had woken from a coma with no memory. Just like that, I was erased.
For thirty days, I waited in the shadows while Dante played hero to a woman who didn't remember him. He told me he was protecting her fragile mind.
But then I found the truth.
I stood outside the doctor's office and heard Dante refuse a treatment that would restore Sofia's memory.
"If she remembers, she might leave again," Dante told the doctor. "Elena will wait. She's a good soldier. Let me have my fantasy."
He wasn't protecting her. He was keeping her broken to feed his ego, banking on my submission. He thought I was furniture he could put in storage.
He was wrong.
I didn't go back to the apartment. Instead, I dialed a number every made man in New York feared.
"Matteo," I said to Dante's lethal older brother, the King of the underworld.
"I am done waiting. I want to be a Moretti bride. But not Dante's." Too Late: The Spare Daughter Escapes Him
SHANA GRAY I died on a Tuesday.
It wasn't a quick death. It was slow, cold, and meticulously planned by the man who called himself my father.
I was twenty years old.
He needed my kidney to save my sister. The spare part for the golden child. I remember the blinding lights of the operating theater, the sterile smell of betrayal, and the phantom pain of a surgeon's scalpel carving into my flesh while my screams echoed unheard. I remember looking through the observation glass and seeing him-my father, Giovanni Vitiello, the Don of the Chicago Outfit-watching me die with the same detached expression he used when signing a death warrant.
He chose her. He always chose her.
And then, I woke up.
Not in heaven. Not in hell. But in my own bed, a year before my scheduled execution. My body was whole, unscarred. The timeline had reset, a glitch in the cruel matrix of my existence, giving me a second chance I never asked for.
This time, when my father handed me a one-way ticket to London-an exile disguised as a severance package-I didn't cry. I didn't beg. My heart, once a bleeding wound, was now a block of ice.
He didn't know he was talking to a ghost.
He didn't know I had already lived through his ultimate betrayal.
He also didn't know that six months ago, during the city's brutal territory wars, I was the one who saved his most valuable asset. In a secret safe house, I stitched up the wounds of a blinded soldier, a man whose life hung by a thread. He never saw my face. He only knew my voice, the scent of vanilla, and the steady touch of my hands. He called me Sette. Seven. For the seven stitches I put in his shoulder.
That man was Dante Moretti. The Ruthless Capo. The man my sister, Isabella, is now set to marry.
She stole my story. She claimed my actions, my voice, my scent. And Dante, the man who could spot a lie from a mile away, believed the beautiful deception because he wanted it to be true. He wanted the golden girl to be his savior, not the invisible sister who was only ever good for her spare parts.
So I took the ticket. In my past life, I fought them, and they silenced me on an operating table. This time, I will let them have their perfect, gilded lie.
I will go to London. I will disappear. I will let Seraphina Vitiello die on that plane.
But I will not be a victim.
This time, I will not be the lamb led to slaughter.
This time, from the shadows of my exile, I will be the one holding the match. And I will wait, with the patience of the dead, to watch their entire world burn. Because a ghost has nothing to lose, and a queen of ashes has an empire to gain. His Unwanted Wife: The Genius Artist Returns
Zaccaria Linn On our fifth anniversary, my husband slid a black velvet box across the table.
Inside wasn't a diamond ring, but a fountain pen.
"Sign the separation papers, Aurora," Ethan said. "Ilene is spiraling again. She needs to see we are over."
I was the wife of the Mafia Underboss, yet I was being discarded for the Family Ward.
Before I could answer, Ilene stormed into the restaurant.
She shrieked that I was still wearing his ring and threw a bowl of boiling lobster bisque directly at my chest.
As my skin blistered and peeled, Ethan didn't rush to me.
He hugged her.
"It's okay," he soothed the woman who had just assaulted me. "I've got you."
The betrayal didn't stop there.
When Ilene pushed me down the stairs days later, Ethan erased the security footage to protect her from the police.
When I was kidnapped by his enemies, I called his emergency line—the one meant for life-or-death situations.
He declined the call.
He was too busy holding Ilene's hand to save his wife.
That was the moment the chain broke.
As the kidnapper's van sped onto the highway, I didn't wait for a rescue that would never come.
I opened the door and jumped into the dark.
Everyone thought Aurora Bruce died on that pavement.
Two years later, Ethan stood outside a gallery in Paris, looking at the woman he had destroyed, finally realizing he had protected the wrong one. Runaway Nurse: The Mafia King's Remorse
Hu Minxue For seven years, I served as the eyes for Dante Vitiello, the blind Capo of New York.
I pulled him back from the edge of madness, tending to his wounds and warming his bed when everyone else had given up on him.
But the moment his vision returned, the years of devotion turned to ash.
In a single phone call, he decided to marry Sofia Moretti for territory, dismissing me as just "the maid's daughter" and a "comfort" he intended to keep as a mistress.
He forced me to watch him court her.
At a gala, when a chaotic accident caused a tower of champagne glasses to shatter, Dante threw his body over Sofia to protect her.
He left me standing there, bleeding from the glass shards, while he carried her away like she was porcelain.
He didn't even look back at the woman who had saved his life.
I realized then that I had worshipped a broken god.
I had given him my dignity, only for him to treat me like a disposable bandage now that he was whole.
He arrogantly believed I would stay in the penthouse, grateful for his scraps.
So, while he was out celebrating his engagement, I met with his mother.
I signed the severance agreement for fifty million dollars.
I packed my bags, wiped my phone, and boarded a one-way flight to Australia.
By the time Dante came home to an empty bed, realized his mistake, and began tearing the city apart to find me, I was already a ghost. 
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