The Barren Wife's Revenge: It Was You

The Barren Wife's Revenge: It Was You

Jill Frevert

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On our seventh anniversary, my husband Dante tossed divorce papers onto the desk. He looked at me with cold indifference, his hand resting on the swollen belly of his nineteen-year-old mistress. "You are barren, Seraphina," he spat. "She carries my legacy. You carry nothing but ghosts." When I tried to argue, he shoved me. I fell hard, my back slamming against the concrete floor of the studio. Pain tore through my abdomen, and warm blood began to pool beneath my red dress. The tragedy wasn't just the violence; it was the truth he didn't know. The IVF hadn't failed. I was pregnant with the son he had desperately prayed for. And in his rage to protect a mistress carrying a stranger's baby, he had just killed his own flesh and blood. He stepped over my bleeding body and took her to the Commission Auction to celebrate. He thought I was broken. He thought I was finished. But he forgot that I knew all his secrets. I woke up in the hospital, signed the papers that froze his entire fortune, and walked straight into the gala. I stood before the most dangerous men in New York and threw a medical file onto Dante's table. "You killed your real son today when you pushed me," I said, my voice slicing through the silence. "As for hers? It can't be yours, Dante." "Because according to this, you have been sterile for seven years."

Chapter 1

On our seventh anniversary, my husband Dante tossed divorce papers onto the desk.

He looked at me with cold indifference, his hand resting on the swollen belly of his nineteen-year-old mistress.

"You are barren, Seraphina," he spat. "She carries my legacy. You carry nothing but ghosts."

When I tried to argue, he shoved me.

I fell hard, my back slamming against the concrete floor of the studio.

Pain tore through my abdomen, and warm blood began to pool beneath my red dress.

The tragedy wasn't just the violence; it was the truth he didn't know.

The IVF hadn't failed. I was pregnant with the son he had desperately prayed for.

And in his rage to protect a mistress carrying a stranger's baby, he had just killed his own flesh and blood.

He stepped over my bleeding body and took her to the Commission Auction to celebrate.

He thought I was broken. He thought I was finished.

But he forgot that I knew all his secrets.

I woke up in the hospital, signed the papers that froze his entire fortune, and walked straight into the gala.

I stood before the most dangerous men in New York and threw a medical file onto Dante's table.

"You killed your real son today when you pushed me," I said, my voice slicing through the silence.

"As for hers? It can't be yours, Dante."

"Because according to this, you have been sterile for seven years."

Chapter 1

Seraphina Vitiello POV

I was sliding the magazine into the grip of my grandmother's vintage pistol when the text came through from the clinic.

It told me my final round of IVF had failed.

That message was followed immediately by another-a photo from my private investigator showing my husband's hand resting possessively on the swollen belly of a nineteen-year-old girl.

If I didn't walk downstairs and end our marriage right now, the man who ruled New York with an iron fist would kill me simply to clear the path for his bastard heir.

I didn't load the gun to kill him.

Death was too easy for Dante Vitiello.

I loaded it to remind myself that before I was a wife, before I was a victim, I was a daughter of blood and ash.

I smoothed the black silk of my gown over my flat, empty stomach.

Downstairs, three hundred guests were waiting to celebrate our seventh anniversary.

They were waiting to toast the perfect union of the Vitiello crime family.

I walked out of the bedroom that had been my prison and descended the grand staircase.

Dante was waiting in his study, sequestered away from the prying eyes of the guests.

He looked up as I entered, his tuxedo sharp against his broad shoulders, the very image of the lethal predator I had fallen in love with at sixteen.

He didn't smile.

He checked his watch, a diamond-encrusted piece that cost more than most people earned in a lifetime.

"You are late, Seraphina," he said, his voice a low rumble that used to make my knees weak.

I didn't apologize.

I walked to his mahogany desk and placed a single manila envelope on the leather surface.

It wasn't the anniversary gift he was expecting.

He frowned, his dark eyes narrowing as he reached for the envelope.

"What is this?"

I watched his fingers-the same fingers that had once wiped away my tears after my first miscarriage-open the seal.

"Divorce papers," I said, my voice steady, though my heart hammered against my ribs like a bird thrashing in a cage.

Dante froze.

The air in the room grew heavy, charged with the violence he kept on a tight leash.

He didn't look at the papers.

He looked at me, his gaze turning into ice.

"We are Catholic, Seraphina," he said, tossing the papers back as if they were trash. "We are Cosa Nostra. We do not divorce."

"You broke your vows first, Dante."

He stood up, towering over the desk, his presence filling the room with suffocating dominance.

"I have never been unfaithful to the Family," he said, twisting my words.

I pulled my phone from my clutch and tapped the screen.

I turned it around to face him.

The photo was high resolution.

It showed him kissing Camilla Rossi, a girl who used to fetch coffee for his soldiers, outside a penthouse I didn't know he owned.

The next photo was the ultrasound scan.

Dante's face didn't flinch, but his jaw tightened until a muscle ticked in his cheek.

"You had me followed," he said, his voice dropping to a dangerous whisper. "You spied on your Don."

"I spied on my husband," I corrected him.

He walked around the desk, closing the distance between us.

I fought the urge to step back.

I had seen him beat a man to death for looking at me the wrong way.

I knew what those hands could do.

"She gives me what you cannot, Seraphina," he said, stopping inches from my face. "She carries the future. You? You carry nothing but ghosts."

The words hit me harder than a physical blow.

They tore through the scar tissue of seven years of failed treatments, of needles, of silent sobbing in bathrooms.

"Sign the papers, Dante," I said. "Let me go."

He reached out and seized my chin, forcing me to look into his eyes.

"You are mine," he hissed. "You are a Vitiello. You stay in this house. You maintain the image. You will raise the child as your own if I tell you to."

I slapped his hand away.

The sound echoed in the silent study.

Before he could retaliate, the heavy oak doors opened.

Luca, his Consigliere, walked in.

Behind him was Camilla.

She was wearing a white dress that hugged the small bump of her stomach, looking every bit the innocent victim she pretended to be.

"Dante," she whimpered, rushing to his side.

He caught her, his arm going around her waist instinctively-a protective gesture he hadn't offered me in years.

She looked at me with wide, wet eyes, but I saw the triumphant smirk hidden in the corner of her mouth.

"Please don't be mad," she said to me, her voice trembling. "We didn't want to hurt you."

Dante looked from her to me.

The choice was made in that silence.

He looked at the woman carrying his legacy, and then he looked at the woman who knew all his secrets.

"Get out of my sight, Seraphina," Dante said to me. "Go to your room. We will discuss your punishment for this disrespect in the morning."

He turned his back on me to comfort his mistress.

I looked at his broad back, the target I had protected for so long.

"If you don't sign those papers, Dante," I whispered to the empty air between us, "I will burn your kingdom down to the ash it came from."

He didn't turn around.

He didn't think I had the matches.

He was wrong.

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