The Ugly Substitute Bride of the Mafia King

Chapter 4 Don't make yourself even more embarrassed.

Word Count: 641 | Released on: 18/03/2026

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whispers of the elite stung, their eyes raking over my plain, understated day

His lethal gaze pinned my mothe

s seem to tremble. "Is the Castillo family so utterly bankrupt that you cannot afford a single

l color. She opened her mo

de with practiced innocence. "Mr. Moretti, please. We did prepare a

merald silk. She raised her voice, ensuring the entire ballroom could hear. "I pulled every string I had to acquire

with fake maternal warmth. "Go change, Ser

een of the fabric. A bitter, genuine smile touched my lips. I ha

he sudden hush of the room. "Wearing this poorly constructed

p rippled throug

, predatory eyes locked onto Bianca. There was no qu

indignation. "How dare you! You're just a country girl! What would you

tic," I said, my voice steady, "why d

ntact the most reclusive designer in Europe? D

pretend on the phone," Bianca s

anding by the wall. "Bring me the hotel's tele

ing at Damien. The Don gave

picked up the receiver and dialed a number I knew by heart. The ballr

g only

r its icy arrogance. But the moment I spoke a quiet greeti

ugh the receiver, speaking in rapid, flawless French. "You finally called! T

hat followed

endoza standing just behind Damien. The Consigliere

lie had just been incinerated in front of New York's most dangerous elite. Slowly, I met Dam

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The Ugly Substitute Bride of the Mafia King

Finn Mercer Mafia

“My adoptive family, the Castillos, treated their biological children like royalty, but used me as a disposable pawn. To secure a mafia alliance, they forced me to take my beautiful sister's place and marry Don Damien Moretti, a man rumored to be a ruthless, bloodthirsty monster. They thought they were sending me to my execution. At our engagement banquet, my mother and sister deliberately gifted me a cheap, counterfeit gown to humiliate me in front of New York's elite. When I publicly exposed their lie, my father demanded I apologize. My mother even raised her hand to slap me in front of everyone. "You are a vicious curse! You ruin everything!" They eagerly waited for the Don to execute me on the spot for embarrassing them. I had spent years secretly saving their company from bankruptcy and supplying the underground experimental drugs that kept my brother's mafia career alive. Yet, they threw me to the wolves without a second thought, disgusted by my very existence. But they didn't know that just an hour before the banquet, I had saved a bleeding, masked stranger in a dark alley-who turned out to be Damien Moretti himself.”