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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

By then, Adrian had already whisked me away to Tuscany, Italy.


When I opened my eyes again, my surroundings were completely unfamiliar.


Just as I was in a daze, a familiar voice reached me.


I turned my gaze to the man beside me, dressed in a bespoke suit, and my eyes immediately reddened. Seeing me like this, he was furious, yet the words that came out of his mouth were impossibly gentle.


"Stella, was it worth it to let yourself get into this state for him?"


His fingertips trembled as he caressed the countless wounds on my body, his voice filled with lingering fear.


"You have no idea how much I regretted it when I went to pick you up that day and saw your injuries, saw you in that delirious state!"


"If I had known it would come to this, I would have fought with my life to win you back then!"


Memories of the past flooded my mind in an instant. The man before me was no one else,


Chapter 13