I spent five years laundering my family's wealth and buying military-grade weapons to crown my husband, Alistair, the Don of the Chicago Mafia. But the night before his coronation, he drove an Italian stiletto into my stomach. He sneered that a Don needed a true Mafia Queen, and that was always meant to be his "fragile" friend, Kylie. As I bled out on the Persian rug, he revealed the sickening truth. The night I was found in a rival Irish boss's bed two years ago wasn't a setup by our enemies. Alistair had ordered his own mother and sister to drug and frame me. He just needed me terrified enough to sign over my merchant trust fund to prove my loyalty. My entire marriage, my sacrifices, and my stolen wealth were just stepping stones for him and his mistress. I had bled for him and won him the city, only to be slaughtered like a sacrificial lamb so he could hand my empire to another woman. Before the flames I started consumed us both, I swore I'd drag his entire family to hell. Opening my eyes again, the suffocating smoke was gone, replaced by the scent of lavender and the bitter taste of chloral hydrate. I was back on the exact night of the frame-up two years ago. Outside the door, my sister-in-law was whispering, waiting for the Irish boss to arrive so they could ruin me. This time, I was going to make sure she was the one in that bed.
Isabella POV
The cold steel of the Italian stiletto sliding into my abdomen didn't hurt nearly as much as the look in my husband's eyes.
Alistair Marshall, the man I had bled for, the man who was to be officially crowned Don of the Chicago outfit by The Commission tomorrow, twisted the blade.
"Why?" I choked out, tasting copper as I stared up at him in our master suite.
"Because a Don needs a true Mafia Queen," Alistair whispered, his handsome face a mask of cruel indifference. "And that was always meant to be Kylie."
Kylie Townsend. The woman he had always claimed was just a fragile friend in need of protection.
"The war..." I gasped, my blood soaking into the Persian rug. "I bought you those Thompson submachine guns. I laundered the money through my trusts. I won you this city!"
"And Kylie gave me the inspiration to use them," he sneered, pushing the stiletto deeper, pinning me to the floor. "The men think she's my lucky charm. They respect her. You? You're just a merchant's daughter with a fat bank account. An account I finally control."
My vision blurred, but his next words pierced deeper than the blade.
"You thought I was your savior two years ago? When you woke up in the Irishman's bed?" He let out a dark, humorless laugh. "My mother and Adina orchestrated that little frame-up, Isabella. But I gave the order. I needed you terrified. I needed you to sign over your assets to prove your loyalty after 'betraying' me with Hoy Casey."
Every sacrifice, every lie I had told to protect him, turned to ash. Five years of marriage, built entirely on a foundation of my stolen wealth and his fabricated glory.
He leaned in closer to watch the life leave my eyes. That was his fatal mistake.
My trembling fingers found the six-inch steel hatpin securing my updo. With a final, guttural scream fueled by pure *Vendetta*, I drove the pin upward, burying it deep into his carotid artery.
Alistair's eyes widened in absolute shock. Hot blood sprayed across my face as he collapsed beside me, clutching his throat, choking on his own betrayal.
I didn't have long. The darkness was pulling me under. But I would be damned if I left my empire for Kylie to inherit. Dragging my heavy, bleeding body toward the nightstand, I shoved the ornate kerosene lamp.
It shattered. The flames eagerly devoured the spilled fuel, racing across the rug and climbing the velvet curtains. I lay in the pooling blood, smiling as the fire consumed the master suite, consuming the monster I had loved.
The roaring flames swallowed me whole. The blistering heat seared my skin, melting away the pain, the betrayal, the life I had known.
Then, the burning stopped.
The suffocating smoke vanished, replaced by the cloying scent of lavender and the bitter aftertaste of chloral hydrate on my tongue.
I gasped, my eyes snapping open.
I wasn't in the burning master suite. I was lying on a plush mattress, staring up at a familiar, vaulted ceiling. The heat wasn't from an inferno; it was from a crackling fire in the hearth of the Marshall Estate's secluded guest suite.
My stomach was intact. No blood. No stiletto.
My head spun with a heavy, drug-induced lethargy. I knew this feeling. I knew this room.
Outside the heavy oak door, a hushed, irritated voice broke the silence.
"Why isn't that damn Irishman, Casey, here yet?"
Adina.
My heart slammed against my ribs. The frame-up. The night that ruined my standing in the family and handed Alistair the chains to bind me. I hadn't just survived the fire. I had been thrown back into the very flames that started it all.
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Chapter 1 1
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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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