A Seven-Year-Old Girl Offered Her Only Puppy to the City’s Most Feared Mafia Boss in Exchange for Her Mother’s Life
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Chapter 8 - The Moretti Empire Began Disintegrating as Elena’s Name Replaced Mine on the Trust, and Every Criminal Who Wanted Power Suddenly Had Nothing Left to InheritThe arrests began.
Assets frozen.
Properties seized.
Companies investigated.
The old network collapsed.
I cooperated with authorities.
Some called me a traitor.
Others called me a hero.
I didn't care.
Elena was safe.
That was enough.
She asked:
“Are we going to be poor?”
I laughed.
“No.”
“Good.”
“What would you do if we were?”
She thought.
“Still have Bruno.”
May you like
I smiled.
She had learned what mattered.
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Chapter 9 - Matteo Admitted He Had Protected Elena for Seven Years, and His Confession Finally Allowed Me to Forgive the Brother I Thought Had Betrayed MeMatteo explained everything.
Chapter 10 - Elena Returned to the Diner Where She First Offered Me Bruno, and I Finally Understood Why That Little Girl Had Trusted Me Before Knowing Who I WasWe returned to Café Nate.
Chapter 11 - Vittorio Returned One Final Time and Tried to Take Elena, but the Child He Once Considered a Weakness Had Become the One Person Who Could Expose Him CompletelyVittorio attacked the foundation.
Chapter 12 - Elena Turned the Money Her Enemies Wanted Into a Foundation for Abandoned Children, Just Like the Little Girl She Had Once BeenElena wanted to help children.
Chapter 13 - Years Later, Elena Asked Me Why I Chose Her Over the Empire, and My Answer Made Her Understand What Her Mother Had Been Fighting ForShe was thirteen.
Chapter 14 - On the Anniversary of the Night She Offered Me Bruno, Elena Gave Me the Puppy’s Old Collar and Told Me the One Thing That Finally Healed My HeartBruno was older.
