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In our six years of marriage, Dante Moretti, betrayed me three times.
The first time, at an underground casino, he slept with a girl and swore he had to be responsible for her.
The second time, to make that girl happy, he locked me in a warehouse for three days while I was seven months pregnant. Then, our baby’s heartbeat stopped.
The third time, that girl fell ill and needed a kidney transplant from me. He strapped my mother, who was on a ventilator, into his sports car and sped wildly along a cliffside highway.
I knelt, begging, "I'll donate it. Just let my mom go. I'll do anything you ask..."
Dante smiled, his hand tightening on the remote control.
The next second, the car smashed through the guardrail, and I could only watch, as my mother plunged toward the lake.
"Remember this. This is the consequence of making Isabella suffer for even one more day."
"From now on, as long as you learn to be obedient, everything can go back to the way it was."
But I knew that was impossible.
Dante, there could never be a future for us.

Love Drowns In the Lake

Upon hearing those words, a bomb went off in Dante's head. The phone he had just raised slipped from his grasp and crashed to the floor.


He nearly collapsed, grabbing the railing for support as he roared,


"What do you mean, 'whereabouts unknown'?!"


"And my wife's mother is dead? How could I possibly not know!"


The assistant was too terrified to repeat himself. It took him a long moment before he finally stammered,


"Boss... Boss, it's true. When I went to pay the bill just now, the doctor said that your wife's mother... passed away a week ago from internal injuries caused by drowning..."


"And your wife was the one who personally filed for the death certificate."


"The doctor also said they haven't been able to contact your wife for a long time. He's worried she couldn't take it... after all... anyone who has to watch their own mother's body be burned would want to kill themselves..."


Dante couldn't hear anything the assistant said after that.


Chapter 7