He Chose The Mistress, I Took Everything

He Chose The Mistress, I Took Everything

Zhao Da

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On the night of our fifth anniversary, I wasn't drinking champagne. I was standing in the shadows of my husband's study, clutching an encrypted drive I found taped behind our wedding photo. It contained the blueprints to a life Dante was building with another woman-Sofia Ricci, the daughter of our sworn enemy. He wasn't just cheating on me. He was using the Port Redevelopment project I had spent two years designing to launder the money he needed to run away with her. When I confronted him, Dante didn't beg for forgiveness. He looked at me with the cold indifference of a Capo and told me to fix my face for dinner. The humiliation didn't stop there. He forced me to share a car with his mistress while my ankle was swollen and throbbing from a fall. He fussed over Sofia's "delicate" motion sickness while ignoring my pain completely. "Elena is sturdy," he dismissed. Sturdy. Like a mule. Like a table he owned. He even stripped me of my rank, handing my multi-million dollar operation to Sofia simply because she had a "vision" for glass walls. He thought I was just a compliant wife, a placeholder to keep his books clean while he played house with his true love. He forgot that while he was the muscle, I was the architect. So, at the Family Gala, wearing a backless revenge dress, I didn't just ask for a separation. I threw a glass of champagne in his face and announced to the entire underworld that the accounts were empty. I didn't just leave him. I took the encryption keys, the money, and his entire future with me.

Chapter 1

On the night of our fifth anniversary, I wasn't drinking champagne. I was standing in the shadows of my husband's study, clutching an encrypted drive I found taped behind our wedding photo.

It contained the blueprints to a life Dante was building with another woman-Sofia Ricci, the daughter of our sworn enemy.

He wasn't just cheating on me. He was using the Port Redevelopment project I had spent two years designing to launder the money he needed to run away with her.

When I confronted him, Dante didn't beg for forgiveness. He looked at me with the cold indifference of a Capo and told me to fix my face for dinner.

The humiliation didn't stop there.

He forced me to share a car with his mistress while my ankle was swollen and throbbing from a fall. He fussed over Sofia's "delicate" motion sickness while ignoring my pain completely.

"Elena is sturdy," he dismissed.

Sturdy. Like a mule. Like a table he owned.

He even stripped me of my rank, handing my multi-million dollar operation to Sofia simply because she had a "vision" for glass walls.

He thought I was just a compliant wife, a placeholder to keep his books clean while he played house with his true love.

He forgot that while he was the muscle, I was the architect.

So, at the Family Gala, wearing a backless revenge dress, I didn't just ask for a separation.

I threw a glass of champagne in his face and announced to the entire underworld that the accounts were empty.

I didn't just leave him. I took the encryption keys, the money, and his entire future with me.

Chapter 1

Elena Vitiello POV:

On the night of our fifth anniversary, I stood in the shadows of my husband's study, clutching a military-grade encrypted drive.

It contained the blueprints to a life my husband was building with another woman.

And if I didn't crack the code before he walked through the door, I would continue to be the unwitting architect of an empire that was never meant for me to rule.

The metal casing of the drive was cold against my palm.

It sat heavy in my hand, far heavier than the five-carat diamond ring Dante had slid onto my finger just hours ago.

He had called the ring a symbol of our enduring alliance.

I knew it for what it really was: hush money.

Dante Moretti was never just a husband.

He was a Capo in the Vitiello crime family, a man whose reputation was built on silence and violence.

He had killed men merely for looking at me the wrong way.

He had burned down a warehouse simply because the owner disrespected my father.

Everyone told me I was the lucky one.

They said I was the Queen on the chessboard, protected by the most lethal Knight in the city.

But Queens are just pieces to be moved.

And tonight, I found out I was about to be sacrificed.

I was in his home office, a room that smelled sharply of expensive scotch and gun oil.

I was supposed to be upstairs, changing into silk for dinner.

Instead, I was down here, looking for a property deed for the Waterfront Port Redevelopment, the project I had spent two years designing to launder the family's shipping profits.

I had found the drive taped to the back of the frame of our wedding photo when I moved it to check the wall safe.

The symbolism made my stomach turn.

With trembling fingers, I plugged it into his laptop.

A password prompt blinked on the screen, mocking me.

I tried our anniversary.

Access Denied.

I tried his induction date into the family.

Access Denied.

My hands started to shake violently.

Dante would be upstairs in five minutes.

If he found me snooping, the consequences would not be a domestic argument.

In our world, secrets were currency, and stealing them was theft.

I closed my eyes, forcing my mind back to the whispers I had ignored.

The late nights.

The smell of a perfume that wasn't mine-something floral and cheap, like lilacs.

Then, it hit me.

I remembered a drunken slip by one of his soldiers three months ago.

August fourteenth. The boss hates August fourteenth.

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