The Betrayed Heiress's Ruthless Mafia Comeback

Julian, swore a blood oath to protect me and promised to win

even million dollars-only to place the crown on the h

succession token just becaus

childhood friends I had secretly funded

ng my knee. When I struggled to stand, they violently w

," they mocked coldly. "You are just faki

agony, completely devoted

tion to strip my inheritance and for

in the dead of night, realizing my years of bl

to sever the

f Dante Vitiello-Julian's dea

ays," I told him. "In exch

pte

lett

aised his paddle and bid eleven million dollars-buying the only artifact that proved my c

ly still in m

at once, but receded in a slow wave, leaving a silence so profound tha

ir heads in a slow, synchronized motion, their gazes

ould feel the blunt, manicured edges pressing deep, bloodless crescents into my skin.

on the velvet display stage w

roving my pure-blood claim

and the man who had sworn a blood oath to prote

on the stage, a study in

for eleven million," th

rp, definitive sound that seemed to splinter the a

ee Family chuckled from

ot even protect her dead mothe

way, their bodies forming a protective cordon

er I had secretly funded, cro

ce to compete with Chlo

d Enforcer, nodded

gave a slight, satisfied smirk and smo

e VIP balcony abov

ur family, watched me not as a daughter, but a

rated this cruel

om using my illicit private fu

eirloom to survive the r

he stage and retrieve

st my table and stopp

en my place in the manor when I was hidden awa

ed the tiara on Ch

hall, the sound of reputations bein

enly backing Chloe's claim

my table, flanked by th

, her voice carrying the same cloying s

lessings, and now Julian has

his dark hair met the crisp collar of his shirt. A sudden, sharp c

w-covered night, he had draped hi

very tiara for me as an anni

performed one of her well-rehearsed displays

y well about the Fal

d me of my token to push th

ian needing his protection, while

et struck up a waltz, its cheerful melody a

h the ballroom weari

d faithfully

ercepting drinks from rival Capos and cleari

ticed me standing

is jaw set in a col

his gaze sweeping past my shoulder to a l

rity in our world. You do n

face and felt the warmth drain from m

ly heirloom fall into an outsider's hands?" I a

s hardened w

r," Julian accused coldly.

nvading my space wit

arlett," he insisted. "Chloe cannot. The

warning echo

st prove my cold, cal

a degenerate Capo of the Lee Family to secu

er silk gown rustling a

rm and looked at me wi

es," Chloe pleaded, her voice pitched to a tone of cloy

orizing all the Dons' p

ding nearby gasped

ly painting me as a

ian to defend my

them that my knowledge

id not d

hloe's hair with a ge

nd the words landed with the quiet, devastating finali

me and led Chloe away

hed open the heavy glas

a physical blow, scouring the cloyin

Salvatore, was ret

ould be twisted and rep

family was now hanging by

the cold stone balustrade

thless asset, then I would become a l