Tomorrow was my wedding day to Jason Brennan, the heir to a powerful Mafia family. My family, the Falcones, had even taken in an orphaned girl, Elena, treating her like my own sister. But in my nightmare of a past life, I choked on my own blood, poisoned by the arsenic Elena slipped into my food every day. As I lay agonizingly close to death, Jason stood over me with a cold laugh, holding Elena in his arms. "We just needed the Falcone wealth, Bella. And the docks." Then came the gunfire. I was forced to watch them slaughter my father and my brother, tearing my family out by the roots. After my death, Elena even spread vicious rumors that I was a barren spinster, twisting their foul betrayal into a tragic tale of noble sacrifice to completely destroy my legacy. The metallic tang of my own blood was so real I could still taste the ash. I didn't understand why the girl my family sheltered for eight years would repay our charity with such venom. And I understood even less how the man who swore to love me could orchestrate my brutal murder without a shred of hesitation. Bolting upright in bed, drenched in cold sweat, I realized I had returned to the night before my wedding. This time, I wouldn't just cancel the engagement. I would hand their treason directly to the Mafia's most terrifying Enforcer, and watch them burn.
Isabella POV
The burning in my throat was so real I could taste the ash.
The metallic tang of my own blood mixed with the bitter trace of arsenic on my tongue. In the fading light of my nightmare, I saw my fiancé, Jason Brennan, standing over my agonizing body with a cold, triumphant laugh. Beside him stood Elena Vance-the orphaned girl my family had taken in, the girl I had treated like a sister-smiling sweetly as she watched me choke on my poisoned breath.
*"We just needed the Falcone wealth, Bella,"* Jason's voice echoed in the dark. *"And the docks."*
Then came the gunfire. Even after my heart stopped in the dream, I was forced to watch the Gallos and the Brennans slaughter my father and my brother, tearing the Falcone family out by the roots.
I bolted upright in bed, gasping for air, my nightgown drenched in cold sweat. The silk canopy of my bed in the Falcone estate slowly came into focus. My wedding to Jason was tomorrow. But the terror vibrating in my bones wasn't pre-wedding jitters; it was a prophecy. It was a memory of a future I would burn the world down to prevent. A *Vendetta* waiting to be born.
I threw off the heavy covers. "Pearl!"
My maid rushed into the room, her eyes wide. "Miss Bella?"
"Where is Elena?" I demanded, my voice trembling with a dark, unfamiliar rage.
"She... she left an hour ago, Miss."
Perfect. I didn't bother changing. I threw a heavy velvet coat over my nightgown and marched straight down the grand staircase toward my father's study.
I burst through the heavy mahogany doors without knocking. The scent of expensive cigars and old leather hit me instantly. My father, Marco Falcone, the Don of Chicago, sat behind his desk. Beside him stood my mother, Sofia, reviewing the dowry and territory maps for tomorrow's alliance.
"Bella, what is the meaning of this?" my father demanded, his dark eyes narrowing at my disheveled state.
"If you love me, and if you care about the survival of this family, you will get the car ready right now," I breathed, stepping up to his desk. I met the Don's lethal gaze without flinching. "Take me to the West Loop. I am going to show you exactly what the Brennan alliance is truly worth."
The drive was a suffocating blur of tension. Now, standing in the dingy, dimly lit hallway of a cheap brick apartment building in the West Loop, the stench of stale cigarettes and cheap perfume was nauseating.
But it was the sound bleeding through the thin wooden door that made my father freeze.
Muffled moans. Elena's breathless voice. Jason's low grunt.
My father's face turned to thunder. He didn't need an explanation. The Don raised his heavy boot and kicked the flimsy door violently off its hinges. The wood splintered with a deafening crack.
I stepped into the room right behind him. There they were. My fiancé and my adopted sister, thrashing naked on a rusted iron bed.
Jason froze, the blood draining from his face. Elena let out a piercing scream, scrambling frantically to pull the stained sheets over her bare chest.
My mother moved faster than a striking viper. Sofia Falcone marched up to the bed, grabbed Elena by her tangled hair, and delivered a vicious slap that echoed like a gunshot in the tiny room.
"*Puttana!*"(Whore!) my mother hissed, her voice dripping with venom. "Your father was a loyal Soldier! He bled and died for Marco, and you repay our charity by spreading your legs for her fiancé?"
Ten minutes later, the initial chaos settled into a suffocating standoff in the cramped living room. Jason and Elena stood before us, hastily dressed in their wrinkled clothes.
But Jason didn't drop to his knees. He didn't beg the Don for his life. Like a fool who fundamentally misunderstood the iron laws of our world, he lifted his chin, trying to salvage his bruised ego.
"The wedding is off," Jason sneered, pulling a trembling Elena behind him. He looked at my parents, then glared at me with blatant disrespect. "I love her. Elena is sweeter, softer. She actually knows how to treat a man, unlike your ice-cold princess."
My father's hand drifted toward the gun inside his jacket, ready to wash this insult away with blood. But the nightmare had burned away any tears I might have shed. I stepped forward, looking dead into the eyes of the man who had murdered me in my dreams.
"If she is so sweet, Jason," I asked, my voice dropping to a dead, chilling calm, "then why did you agree to this marriage in the first place?"
The Enforcer's Jilted Princess
Bone Possolo
Mafia
Chapter 1 1
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Chapter 2 2
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Chapter 3 3
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Chapter 4 4
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Chapter 5 5
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Chapter 6 6
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Chapter 7 7
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Chapter 8 8
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Chapter 9 9
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Chapter 10 10
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Chapter 11 11
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Chapter 12 12
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Chapter 13 13
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Chapter 14 14
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Chapter 15 15
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Chapter 16 16
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Chapter 17 17
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Chapter 18 18
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Chapter 19 19
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Chapter 20 20
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Chapter 21 21
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Chapter 22 22
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Chapter 23 23
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Chapter 24 24
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Chapter 25 25
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Chapter 26 26
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Chapter 27 27
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Chapter 28 28
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Chapter 29 29
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Chapter 30 30
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Chapter 31 31
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Chapter 32 32
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Chapter 33 33
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Chapter 34 34
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Chapter 35 35
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Chapter 36 36
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Chapter 37 37
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Chapter 38 38
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Chapter 39 39
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Chapter 40 40
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