Married To The Comatose Mafia King

Married To The Comatose Mafia King

Benjamen Ernst

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I stood before the altar of the grand gothic cathedral, about to marry Julian Moretti, the grieving adopted son stepping up for the comatose Don. To the hundreds of mafia men behind us, it was a dutiful wedding. But I knew the horrifying truth. Julian and his pregnant mistress, Clara, had orchestrated a brutal plot to steal my dowry and secure his place as the next Don. In my past life, I was completely blind to their betrayal. Julian trapped me in our apartment and set it ablaze. I could still feel the blistering heat of the fire. I could still hear my mother's agonizing screams and my little brother Antonio's desperate coughing as the smoke filled our lungs. My entire family was burned alive just so Julian could swap the brides and put his whore in my place. I died in pure agony, filled with hatred and despair, wondering why I had trusted a monster. God hadn't saved me from those flames. The Devil had. And he sent me back to this exact moment at the altar. "Do you, Isabella Rossi, take Julian Moretti to be your lawfully wedded husband?" the priest asked. Julian reached for my hand with a sickeningly gentle smile. I didn't give it to him. I tore back my lace veil and turned to face the crowd. "You are mistaken, Father," I said, my voice like ice. "The man I am bound to marry is your Don. Damien Moretti."

Married To The Comatose Mafia King Chapter 1 1

Isabella POV

The air in the grand Gothic cathedral was thick and cloying, a mixture of lilies, old stone, and the solemn scent of incense. It was the smell of a funeral, not a wedding. I stood at the altar, a sacrificial lamb in white silk, the lace of my veil a shroud across my vision. Beside me, Julian Moretti radiated a smug, proprietary warmth that turned my stomach to ice.

He thought this was his victory. The culmination of a flawless plan.

He didn't know I remembered the fire.

The acrid smell of burning gasoline, the searing heat on my skin, the sound of my mother and brother's screams trapped behind a locked door. I remembered the triumphant sneer on his face, reflected in the window of the car as he drove away, leaving them to burn. He and his pregnant whore, Clara.

I had died then. And I had come back.

"...and do you, Isabella Rossi, take this man, Julian Moretti, to be your lawfully wedded husband?" the priest droned, his voice echoing in the cavernous space.

This was the moment. The exact moment my past life had ended and this new, vengeful one began.

I lifted my hands, my fingers steady, and tore the veil from my head.

A collective gasp rippled through the pews, filled with the deadliest men in Chicago. Capos and Soldiers in dark, tailored suits shifted, their eyes, cold and watchful, fixing on me. Julian's hand tightened on my arm, his smile faltering. "Bella, what are you doing?" he hissed, his voice a venomous whisper.

I ignored him. My eyes scanned the crowd, finding her with ease. Clara. His little secret, hiding amongst the guests, one hand resting protectively on the slight swell of her belly. Her face was a mask of shock and dawning horror.

"You have made a mistake, Father," I said, my voice ringing out with a clarity that defied the trembling of my soul. I turned, my wedding gown sweeping across the cold marble, and pointed a single, unwavering finger at Clara. "My fiancé has been unfaithful. That woman, his mistress, is carrying his child."

The silence that followed was absolute, a void so profound it felt like the world had stopped breathing. Then, chaos erupted. A low, dangerous rumble of voices filled the church. Julian's face, once a portrait of handsome charm, was now a twisted canvas of disbelief and pure, murderous fury.

But I was no longer looking at him.

My gaze was fixed on the figure in the ornate wheelchair near the front pew, an afterthought at his own son's wedding. Don Damien Moretti. Julian's adoptive father. The rightful king of this dark empire, brought low by a traitor's poison. He was a specter, kept alive by a network of tubes and the rhythmic hiss of a respirator, his chiseled face pale and still as a death mask.

This was my only move. My only chance.

I walked towards him, each step a declaration of war. The crowd parted before me as if I were royalty, their faces a mixture of confusion and awe. I stopped before the wheelchair, before the ghost of a man who held the keys to my revenge.

I knelt, placing my hand over his, his skin cold as the grave.

"According to the agreement between the Rossi and Moretti families," I announced, my voice carrying to every corner of the silent church, "I, Isabella Rossi, am not to marry a treacherous bastard." I lifted my chin, my eyes meeting the stunned gaze of the highest-ranking Capos.

"I am to marry the Don. I am to marry Damien Moretti."

The ride back to the Moretti estate was a blur of grim-faced men and screeching tires. I was neither a bride nor a guest, but something far more dangerous: an unknown quantity. A lit stick of dynamite.

I was taken directly to the matriarch's private study, a somber room paneled in dark mahogany and lined with the portraits of long-dead Dons. Their painted eyes watched me with cold indifference.

I didn't have to wait long. The door burst open and Julian stormed in, his face pale with a desperate fury. He threw himself to his knees before his grandmother, Elena Moretti, who sat behind a massive desk, her fingers clutching a black rosary.

He didn't see me standing in the shadows. His performance was for her alone.

"Nonna, you must listen to me!" he cried, his voice thick with fabricated grief and terror. "It's a trap! This whole thing was a setup!"

Elena, her face etched with the strain of her son's illness, looked down at him, her expression a mixture of confusion and alarm.

"That woman... Isabella Rossi... she is not who she seems," Julian choked out, tears streaming down his face. "She is a pawn, a spy sent by the Gallo family to humiliate us, to create chaos! She made up that lie about Clara to disrupt the wedding, to get close to Father! She's an assassin, Nonna! She means to kill him in his bed, to finish the job!"

He clung to her, the perfect picture of a loyal, terrified son. "We have to lock her up. We have to question her before she destroys our entire family!"

Elena's gaze, clouded with fear and suspicion, finally found me in the corner of the room. The matriarch's eyes, which had once held a flicker of kindness, were now as cold and hard as a judge's gavel. Julian's poison was already at work.

I had won the battle in the church, but here, in the heart of the lion's den, the war had just begun. And I was entirely alone.

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“I stood before the altar of the grand gothic cathedral, about to marry Julian Moretti, the grieving adopted son stepping up for the comatose Don. To the hundreds of mafia men behind us, it was a dutiful wedding. But I knew the horrifying truth. Julian and his pregnant mistress, Clara, had orchestrated a brutal plot to steal my dowry and secure his place as the next Don. In my past life, I was completely blind to their betrayal. Julian trapped me in our apartment and set it ablaze. I could still feel the blistering heat of the fire. I could still hear my mother's agonizing screams and my little brother Antonio's desperate coughing as the smoke filled our lungs. My entire family was burned alive just so Julian could swap the brides and put his whore in my place. I died in pure agony, filled with hatred and despair, wondering why I had trusted a monster. God hadn't saved me from those flames. The Devil had. And he sent me back to this exact moment at the altar. "Do you, Isabella Rossi, take Julian Moretti to be your lawfully wedded husband?" the priest asked. Julian reached for my hand with a sickeningly gentle smile. I didn't give it to him. I tore back my lace veil and turned to face the crowd. "You are mistaken, Father," I said, my voice like ice. "The man I am bound to marry is your Don. Damien Moretti."”
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