Mafia Wife's Revenge: Unleashing My Fury

Mafia Wife's Revenge: Unleashing My Fury

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For five years, I lived a beautiful lie. I was Aliana Hughes, the cherished wife of the city's most feared Mafia Capo and the beloved daughter of the Don. I believed my arranged marriage had blossomed into love. On my birthday, my husband promised me the amusement park. Instead, I found him there with his other family, celebrating the fifth birthday of the son I never knew he had. I overheard their plan. My husband called me a "naive fool," a placeholder to legitimize his secret son. The ultimate betrayal wasn't his affair, but the sight of my own father's car parked across the street. My family wasn't just aware; they were the architects of my ruin. Back home, I found the proof: a secret photo album of my husband's other family posing with my parents, and records showing my father had bankrolled the entire deception. They had even drugged me on weekends so he could play happy family. The grief didn't break me. It turned into something cold and sharp. I was a ghost in a life that was never mine, and a ghost has nothing to lose. I copied every damning file onto a USB drive. As they celebrated their perfect day, I sent a courier with my parting gift: a recording of their treachery. While their world burned, I walked toward the airport, ready to erase myself and start over.

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: Aliana Hughes and Ivan Hughes

Chapter 1

For five years, I lived a beautiful lie. I was Aliana Hughes, the cherished wife of the city's most feared Mafia Capo and the beloved daughter of the Don. I believed my arranged marriage had blossomed into love.

On my birthday, my husband promised me the amusement park. Instead, I found him there with his other family, celebrating the fifth birthday of the son I never knew he had.

I overheard their plan. My husband called me a "naive fool," a placeholder to legitimize his secret son. The ultimate betrayal wasn't his affair, but the sight of my own father's car parked across the street. My family wasn't just aware; they were the architects of my ruin.

Back home, I found the proof: a secret photo album of my husband's other family posing with my parents, and records showing my father had bankrolled the entire deception. They had even drugged me on weekends so he could play happy family.

The grief didn't break me. It turned into something cold and sharp. I was a ghost in a life that was never mine, and a ghost has nothing to lose.

I copied every damning file onto a USB drive. As they celebrated their perfect day, I sent a courier with my parting gift: a recording of their treachery. While their world burned, I walked toward the airport, ready to erase myself and start over.

Chapter 1

Aliana POV:

My husband, Ivan Hughes, the most feared Capo in the Donovan Outfit, promised to take me to the amusement park for my birthday. He lied. I found him there with his other family, celebrating the fifth birthday of the son I never knew he had.

It all started this morning, in the beautiful lie I called my life. I was convinced I was the cherished, long-lost heiress, finally secure in my place. I believed my arranged marriage was a path to love, that my husband adored me.

That morning, he'd kissed me before he left, a possessive, almost absentminded gesture. His thumb traced my jaw, his lips firm against mine. "Happy birthday, mia cara."

The words were a warm blanket over the cold space in our bed he'd leave behind.

Five years ago, my rival, Kiera Reese, had tried to ruin me. She sabotaged a multi-million dollar art acquisition I was managing for the Family, a move calculated to paint me as incompetent in front of my father, the Don. My parents told me she'd had a mental breakdown, that she'd been sent to a private facility. The matter was closed. I believed them.

Over coffee downtown, my best friend, Debi, wasn't so sure.

"I still can't believe they let her off so easily," she said, stirring her latte with more force than necessary. "She tried to destroy your reputation."

"She was sick, Debi," I said, defending a narrative I desperately needed to be true.

I pulled out my phone, my fingers flying across the screen in a hopeful, girlish message to Ivan. Can we still go to the amusement park? For my birthday?

His reply was swift. Dismissive.

Buried with Family business. Rain check.

A familiar ache settled in my chest, but this time, it was laced with something sharp: doubt. It was always "Family business."

Debi's eyes narrowed. "On your birthday? No man is that busy, Aliana. A man that conveniently busy is hiding something." She leaned forward, a silent dare in her expression. "You should take him lunch."

Her words landed on the fertile ground of my newfound fear. So I went.

Hughes Bio-Tech was one of our cleanest fronts, a gleaming tower of steel and glass. Ivan's secretary, a young woman who always looked terrified of him, paled when she saw me.

"Mrs. Hughes! I... I wasn't expecting you."

"Is Ivan in?" I asked, holding up a paper bag with his favorite sandwich.

She wrung her hands. "He's not. He's... at the Reese Gallery. In the West End. Overseeing an installation."

Reese Gallery. The name snagged in my throat. A cold dread, thick and suffocating, began to pool in my stomach.

I drove, my knuckles white on the steering wheel. As I pulled up to the gallery, I saw it. My father's black armored sedan, parked discreetly across the street.

They weren't just aware. They were involved.

Through the gallery's floor-to-ceiling window, I saw them. Ivan. Kiera. And a little boy with Ivan's dark hair and a smile that was a perfect, devastating copy of my own. Ivan was laughing, a relaxed, unguarded expression I hadn't seen on his face in years. He looked happy. He looked like a man in love.

The little boy, Leo, shouted with a glee that echoed in the silent cavern of my chest. "Daddy, can we go to the amusement park now? For my birthday?"

Ivan's voice, laced with an affection he never used with me, drifted through the slightly ajar door. "I booked the whole park, kiddo. Just for you."

Leo's birthday. It was the same day as mine.

Kiera leaned in, her hand on Ivan's arm. "Does she suspect anything?" she murmured.

Ivan's laugh was a cruel, ugly sound. "Aliana? She's a sweet, naive fool. Believes every word I say."

He leaned down and gave Kiera a tender kiss. It was the exact same possessive, almost absentminded gesture he'd given me that morning.

He continued, his voice carrying with an arrogance that assumed no one of consequence could ever be listening. He'd claim he was sterile. They would "adopt" Leo. Make him the sole, legitimate heir to the Donovan-Hughes line. My purpose, my entire five-year marriage, was to be a placeholder. A legitimate face for his illegitimate family.

My phone buzzed in my hand. A text from Ivan.

Thinking of you. Miss you.

For a heartbeat, the world went silent. The grief wasn't an ache; it was a physical schism, a fault line cracking through the bedrock of my soul. It didn't break me. It didn't shatter. It crystallized into something hard, cold, and sharp enough to gut a man.

I put the car in drive.

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