Mafia King's First Love

at Cloe's heart. "I haven't forgotten what your father, Jason William, did for me," she said, h

ed in her mind, too shocking to fully grasp. Her body went cold as s

ntinued. "Do you think my son wanted to marry you becau

cruel words cut deeper than any wound she'd ever felt. Ethan... didn't love her? She shook her head slight

biting, her lips curling into a mocking smile. "Sympathy, because your

ad ever believed about Ethan, about their love, their future, was a lie. The countless nights they had spent dreaming of their life

piece by piece. She looked up at Elizabeth, her vision blurred by the tears

ile grew. "And now

around her felt distant, like a scene playing out in a nightmare she couldn't escape. She couldn't breathe, couldn't move. All she could do

d to the storm raging inside her now. Her body trembled violently, but there

er face, while Elizabeth's words echoed in Cloe's mi

ur hospital bills are high, Cloe. I can pay them for you, if

in disbelief, her hands trembling. Leave Ethan? The one person she had always believed in, the love of her life?

could Cloe refuse such a deal? Sofia, standing beside her, let out a mocking laugh. "Do you

have been shattered, but she wasn't ready to surrender. The thought of Ethan being with

something-maybe uncertainty, maybe something else-but she quickly buried it. She straightened up, her voice low and fil

ssure, Sofia's pregnancy-everything was crashing down around her. But despite it all, she looked Elizabeth i

thick with tension, as