I was the daughter of a loyal Mafia Capo, arranged to marry the Underboss of the Moretti family. But I gave my heart to his brother, Marco, who promised to break the betrothal and protect me. When I went into premature labor in a freezing, abandoned warehouse, Marco didn't come to save me. He sent my cousin, Caitlin. With a mocking smile, she told me Marco despised my "filthy Irish blood" and that my pregnancy was just a temporary amusement. Then, she pulled out a hunting knife. She pinned me down, sliced my abdomen open, and smothered my newborn baby right in front of my eyes. "He agreed that this inconvenience needs to be removed," she whispered. She revealed that she and Marco had orchestrated my father's murder to secure Mafia shipping routes. Then, she casually knocked over a kerosene lantern, locking the heavy metal door to let me and my dead child burn to ash. While they headed to a high-society gala to celebrate my "accidental" death and their new power, I lay in the roaring flames. As the fire blistered my skin and I held my baby's lifeless body, my suffocating despair froze into a razor-sharp rage. My entire life, my family, and my love had been built on their calculated lies. But they made one fatal mistake. I didn't die in that inferno. I dragged my ruined body out of the ashes, wrapped myself in a blood-soaked coat, and walked straight into their celebration banquet to become their goddamn reckoning.
Isabella POV
The cold of the abandoned North Wing room seeped into my bones, but it was nothing compared to the hollow ache in my womb. I lay on the bare iron bed, shivering, the metallic scent of my own blood thick in the freezing Chicago air. I had lost the baby. My only leverage in this cursed Moretti alliance was gone.
The heavy door creaked open. Caitlin stepped in, her emerald dress a stark contrast to the peeling wallpaper and the dust.
"Get out," I rasped, clutching my stomach. "When Marco finds out you're here, he'll kill you. This was his heir."
Caitlin threw her head back and laughed, a sharp, grating sound that echoed in the empty room. "His heir? Oh, Bella, you stupid, naive little canary. Marco never touched you."
I froze, the chill in the room suddenly feeling absolute. "What?"
"He despises your filthy Irish blood," she sneered, stepping closer to the bed. "The drugged wine, the dark room, the 'accident' on the stairs tonight? All Marco's design. He needed a legitimate reason to discard you for a better alliance."
My breath hitched. If Marco hadn't touched me that night in the dark... who had? A phantom memory of calloused hands, a suffocatingly dominant presence, and the faint scent of expensive cologne and cigars flashed through my mind.
Before I could process the horrifying truth, Caitlin leaned over me. "But I am carrying his true heir," she whispered maliciously. "And Marco agreed that to purify the bloodline, we needed a little sacrifice. A Sicilian tradition."
With a flick of her wrist, a silver stiletto dagger flashed in the dim light. Before I could react, she drove the blade straight through the back of my left hand, pinning it deep into the mattress.
A raw, guttural scream tore from my throat.
Caitlin merely smiled, walking over to the bloody basin beside the bed. She dipped her fingers into the dark red water-the remnants of my unborn child-and flicked it onto the floor with utter disgust. "Dirty blood."
A heavy knock echoed from the hallway. A Moretti soldier's voice filtered through the thick wood. "Miss Caitlin. The Carson cleansing is complete. The strongholds are burned, the core members executed. Mr. Marco requests your presence at the celebration dinner."
The words hit me harder than the blade in my hand. *Cleansing. Executed. Celebration.*
My family. My father's legacy. Gone.
Caitlin leaned in close, her breath hot against my tear-stained cheek. "You see, Bella? You killed them. Your uselessness dragged the whole Carson family to hell."
She turned on her heel, her shoes clicking against the floorboards. The door slammed shut, and the heavy deadbolt slid into place.
I was left alone in the dark. The tears stopped. The agonizing grief that had been suffocating me suddenly crystallized into something else. Something cold, sharp, and absolute.
Within minutes, the smell of smoke overpowered the scent of blood. Orange light flickered beneath the door crack. They weren't just leaving me to bleed out; they were burning the North Wing to the ground to erase their sins.
The heat grew unbearable, the thick smoke burning my lungs. I looked at my pinned hand. If I was going to die, I would not die a victim.
Gritting my teeth, I wrapped my right hand around the hilt of the dagger. With a feral cry, I ripped the blade out of my flesh and the mattress. Blood poured from the gaping wound, but I didn't feel the pain. I gripped the bloody dagger, my green eyes reflecting the encroaching flames.
"Caitlin Carson, Marco Moretti," I rasped, my voice a broken, demonic whisper over the roar of the fire. "I swear on my blood and my soul, this is my *Vendetta*. I will hunt you down, through heaven and hell, I will have my revenge."
The smoke thickened, turning the world gray. My vision blurred, my body finally giving out to the blood loss and the suffocating heat. I slumped back against the ruined bed.
Just as the darkness threatened to pull me under, a deafening crash shattered the roar of the fire. The heavy oak door was kicked entirely off its hinges, splintering into the burning hallway.
Through the wall of flames, a massive silhouette emerged. He moved with the lethal, predatory grace of a black panther. As he stepped into the dying light of the room, I saw his face. Cold, flawless, and utterly devoid of mercy. His narrow eyes, dark as a Sicilian night, locked onto my bleeding, broken form.
Damien Moretti.
Reborn From Ashes: The Mafia Bride's Revenge
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Mafia
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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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