Shattered Vows: The Mafia Heiress's Ruthless Comeback

Shattered Vows: The Mafia Heiress's Ruthless Comeback

Xiao Wang

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I was just the decoration at the gala, the dutiful wife of Chicago's Underboss, Dante Moretti. Then my phone buzzed with a photo of his hand on another woman's thigh, taken inside the venue just minutes ago. I finally snapped, leaking the photo to the press to shame him. Dante dragged me home, pinned me to the sofa, and carved a thin line into my collarbone with a switchblade. "You don't get to leave until I say you're done," he warned. But the real devastation came later. An anonymous video file revealed the truth about my mother's "suicide" ten years ago. She didn't jump. My sister, Sofia, pushed her. And Dante? He didn't marry me for power. He brokered a deal with my father to cover up the murder and took me as hush money. I crashed Sofia's birthday party to expose them, but my father slapped me in front of everyone. Dante grabbed my fresh wound and forced me to my knees. "Apologize to your sister," he threatened, "or I bulldoze your mother's grave right now." I swallowed my pride, bowed my head, and apologized. But Sofia just laughed, pulled out a detonator, and pressed the button anyway. "Oops," she giggled as the explosion rocked the ground. "Happy birthday to me." Watching the smoke rise from my mother's destroyed mausoleum, the old Elena died. I vanished into the night, leaving behind signed divorce papers and my bloodied dress. When Dante finally tracked me down, I wasn't hiding in fear. I was standing next to his mortal enemy, Luca Rossi, wearing a massive diamond ring. I handed Dante a cream-colored envelope. "What is this?" he asked, his hands trembling. "An invitation," I said, my voice ice-cold. "To the wedding of Don Luca Rossi and Elena Vitiello."

Shattered Vows: The Mafia Heiress's Ruthless Comeback Chapter 1

I was just the decoration at the gala, the dutiful wife of Chicago's Underboss, Dante Moretti.

Then my phone buzzed with a photo of his hand on another woman's thigh, taken inside the venue just minutes ago.

I finally snapped, leaking the photo to the press to shame him.

Dante dragged me home, pinned me to the sofa, and carved a thin line into my collarbone with a switchblade.

"You don't get to leave until I say you're done," he warned.

But the real devastation came later. An anonymous video file revealed the truth about my mother's "suicide" ten years ago.

She didn't jump. My sister, Sofia, pushed her.

And Dante? He didn't marry me for power. He brokered a deal with my father to cover up the murder and took me as hush money.

I crashed Sofia's birthday party to expose them, but my father slapped me in front of everyone.

Dante grabbed my fresh wound and forced me to my knees.

"Apologize to your sister," he threatened, "or I bulldoze your mother's grave right now."

I swallowed my pride, bowed my head, and apologized.

But Sofia just laughed, pulled out a detonator, and pressed the button anyway.

"Oops," she giggled as the explosion rocked the ground. "Happy birthday to me."

Watching the smoke rise from my mother's destroyed mausoleum, the old Elena died.

I vanished into the night, leaving behind signed divorce papers and my bloodied dress.

When Dante finally tracked me down, I wasn't hiding in fear.

I was standing next to his mortal enemy, Luca Rossi, wearing a massive diamond ring.

I handed Dante a cream-colored envelope.

"What is this?" he asked, his hands trembling.

"An invitation," I said, my voice ice-cold. "To the wedding of Don Luca Rossi and Elena Vitiello."

Chapter 1

Elena Vitiello POV

The vibration of my phone against my thigh felt like a warning shot, but the image on the screen was the bullet.

It was a photo of my husband's hand-unmistakable by the heavy gold signet ring of the Moretti Crime Family-curled possessively around the thigh of a blonde woman I didn't recognize.

The timestamp read two minutes ago. The location: the very bathroom I was currently standing outside of.

I stared at the screen, my breath hitching.

The air in the hallway of the Moretti estate felt suddenly thin, suffocating.

Inside the ballroom, the gala was in full swing.

The muffled sounds of an orchestra, performative laughter, and the clinking of crystal bled through the heavy oak doors.

It was a celebration of power.

Dante Moretti, the Underboss of the Chicago Outfit, was the guest of honor.

I was just the decoration.

The door to the men's lounge opened.

Dante stepped out.

He adjusted his cufflinks, his face a mask of bored arrogance.

He was beautiful in the way a natural disaster is beautiful.

Devastating.

Unstoppable.

And utterly indifferent to the wreckage he left behind.

He looked at me, his dark eyes sweeping over my designer gown with the same indifference he showed the upholstery.

"You're hovering," he said.

His voice was deep, a rumble that used to make my knees weak before I learned it was just the sound of a predator growling.

"I was waiting for you," I said.

"Don't."

He brushed past me, smelling of whiskey and another woman's cheap perfume.

"Go inside, Elena. Smile. Don't embarrass me."

He didn't even check to see if I followed.

He knew I would.

I was Elena Vitiello.

The dutiful wife.

The caged canary.

I watched his broad back as he rejoined his soldiers.

He laughed at something one of his Capos said, a genuine sound that he never wasted on me.

He treated me like a political necessity.

A piece of furniture acquired in a merger.

I looked down at my phone again.

The photo was sent from an anonymous number.

Probably a rival trying to stir the pot.

Or maybe the mistress herself, wanting to mark her territory.

It didn't matter.

Something inside my chest, a fragile thing I had been gluing back together for three years, finally snapped.

I didn't put the phone away.

Instead, I opened my contact list and scrolled to the number of the city's most vicious gossip columnist-a woman Dante despised.

I attached the photo.

I typed a single caption: The Prince of Chicago prefers the help.

I hit send.

Calmly, I walked back into the ballroom.

I picked up a glass of champagne.

I waited.

It took twenty minutes.

A ripple went through the room.

Phones lit up like fireflies in the dark.

Whispers started, low and buzzing, then growing louder until the noise was deafening.

Dante was holding court near the bar when his Consigliere, a grim man named Marco, tapped his shoulder and showed him a screen.

I watched Dante's spine stiffen.

The air around him seemed to drop ten degrees.

He looked at the screen, then he looked up.

His eyes found me across the room immediately.

There was no confusion in his gaze.

Only a promise of violence.

He didn't make a scene.

He was too disciplined for that.

He simply nodded to Marco, walked over to me, and gripped my elbow.

His fingers dug in hard enough to bruise.

"Car," he said.

The ride to our penthouse was silent.

The kind of silence that precedes a tornado.

When the elevator doors opened into our foyer, he didn't let go of my arm.

He dragged me across the marble floor and hurled me into the living room.

I stumbled, catching myself on the edge of the sofa.

"You think you're clever?" he asked.

He was unbuttoning his jacket, his movements calm, which was worse than if he were shouting.

"I think I'm done, Dante."

"You leaked it."

It wasn't a question.

"I did."

He laughed, a cold, sharp sound.

"To what end? To shame me? You think the opinions of sheep matter to a wolf?"

"It matters to your reputation," I said, standing straight. "You demand respect, but you can't even keep your zipper up at your own gala."

He closed the distance between us in a blur of motion.

He was terrifying.

He had killed men for less than a disrespectful tone.

"I do what I want," he hissed, looming over me. "I fuck who I want. You are my wife because your father needed protection and I needed a womb. That is where your utility begins and ends."

"Then divorce me."

The words hung in the air.

Divorce was forbidden.

It was a stain on the Family honor.

Dante stared at me, his eyes narrowing.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a switchblade.

The click of the blade opening was the loudest sound in the world.

He didn't raise it to my throat.

He stepped closer, trapping me against the sofa.

"You want to leave?" he whispered.

He brought the knife down, not to kill, but to mark.

The blade sliced across the skin of my collarbone.

A thin, stinging line of heat.

Red bloomed on my white dress.

I gasped, biting my lip to keep from screaming.

"You are mine," he said, his voice devoid of emotion. "You don't get to leave until I say you're done."

He wiped the blade on my dress.

Then he walked to the sidebar, opened a drawer, and pulled out a thick envelope.

He threw it at me.

The corners struck my chest, right over the fresh wound.

"You want out? Fine."

He poured himself a drink, not looking at me.

"Sign them. Take your blood money. But remember this, Elena... nobody walks away from the Moretti family clean. You're just a Vitiello. You're weak."

He paused, taking a sip of his drink before turning his dead eyes back to me.

"Just like your mother."

The mention of her name froze my blood.

"Get out of my sight," he said. "Before I decide to make that cut deeper."

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“I was just the decoration at the gala, the dutiful wife of Chicago's Underboss, Dante Moretti. Then my phone buzzed with a photo of his hand on another woman's thigh, taken inside the venue just minutes ago. I finally snapped, leaking the photo to the press to shame him. Dante dragged me home, pinned me to the sofa, and carved a thin line into my collarbone with a switchblade. "You don't get to leave until I say you're done," he warned. But the real devastation came later. An anonymous video file revealed the truth about my mother's "suicide" ten years ago. She didn't jump. My sister, Sofia, pushed her. And Dante? He didn't marry me for power. He brokered a deal with my father to cover up the murder and took me as hush money. I crashed Sofia's birthday party to expose them, but my father slapped me in front of everyone. Dante grabbed my fresh wound and forced me to my knees. "Apologize to your sister," he threatened, "or I bulldoze your mother's grave right now." I swallowed my pride, bowed my head, and apologized. But Sofia just laughed, pulled out a detonator, and pressed the button anyway. "Oops," she giggled as the explosion rocked the ground. "Happy birthday to me." Watching the smoke rise from my mother's destroyed mausoleum, the old Elena died. I vanished into the night, leaving behind signed divorce papers and my bloodied dress. When Dante finally tracked me down, I wasn't hiding in fear. I was standing next to his mortal enemy, Luca Rossi, wearing a massive diamond ring. I handed Dante a cream-colored envelope. "What is this?" he asked, his hands trembling. "An invitation," I said, my voice ice-cold. "To the wedding of Don Luca Rossi and Elena Vitiello."”
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