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The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 12
That was our first child.We had spent six whole years trying.It happened while he had me locked in the basement.It happened while I beat on the iron door and begged him through my tears.Gone.If he had believed me then, opened the door, and taken me to a hospital, the child might have lived.But there were no ifs.Raphael held the report, and inch by inch he sank to the floor.“Victor. Dolores.”He cried until he couldn't breathe, two names on his lips over and over.It was something he and I had agreed on once.A boy would be Victor. A girl would be Dolores.And now he had killed his own child with his own hands.My father said, “Don't cry. Look at the back.”Raphael turned the report over and cried harder, broken.On the back was the note I had left him.A single line.“Sign it, Raphael.”It was the first thing I had asked of him in the ten years I had known him.It was also the last.A long time passed. Raphael folded the report, tucked it into his pocket, left the Star of Flore
The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 11
The butler came to tell me a man in a hospital gown was asking to see me, calling himself Raphael Sterling.I was in my studio, painting.Beyond the window stretched a deep blue sea, scattering light under the sun.It was so beautiful it lifted everything in me, beautiful enough to make you forget every wound.I would not let Raphael come and foul a view like that.“Tell him no. He can leave the signed papers and go.”The butler nodded. “Of course. But forgive me, miss. He also says he has brought you the Star of Florence.”My brush paused.I didn't care about Raphael, but I cared about my mother's keepsake.While I hesitated, my father's voice came from behind me.“Scarlett, if you don't want to see him, I'll handle him.”I turned. My father stood in the doorway, watching me.He gestured at my canvas. “It's beautiful. I think you should stay and finish it.”I nodded.“Leave him waiting half an hour. Then send him to find me in the back garden.”My father said his piece and turned to g
The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 10
[Raphael's POV]Raphael yanked out the needle, threw himself off the bed, and gathered the papers up in a panic.He flipped through them like a man possessed.The terms were clear. Scarlett wanted to leave him. She wanted a divorce.Scarlett gave up all claim to property. She asked for only one thing.That he sign at once.When he had read it, he lifted his head and stared blankly at Ron and Serena.“Scarlett wants a divorce. It's real. She wants to divorce me.”Serena patted his shoulder, but couldn't find a single word of comfort.Raphael let out a laugh so eerie it sounded like the cry of a night owl.“No! I will never divorce Scarlett!”He tore the agreement into shreds in a fit of frenzy.“I'm going to find Scarlett! I got the Star of Florence back, she'll forgive me!”With that, he charged for the door like a wild animal.Ron used everything he had to barely hold him back.“Where are you going? Calm down! No one knows where Scarlett is.”“Then we look! If those useless men can't
The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 9
[Raphael's POV]In the hospital, Raphael came to.“Have you lost your mind?” Serena watched him from beside the bed, frightened and frantic. “What were you doing running off into the mountains?”Raphael ignored her and patted frantically at himself.“Where is it? No. I found it. I know I found it.”His movements were so violent the IV needle on the back of his hand pulled loose and bled, and still he didn't stop.He searched and searched, couldn't find what he wanted, and started trying to pull off his hospital gown to check.Ron couldn't watch anymore. He pinned him down, exasperated.“Stop it! You didn't lose it. When we found you, you were gripping it so hard it took three male nurses to pry your hand open.”With that, Ron tossed a mud-caked velvet box beside him. “This what you're after?”“It's just an oversized diamond. You had to go half out of your mind, ready to die for it?”Raphael seized the box like a drowning man grabbing a rope, and muttered:“You don't understand. With th
The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 8
[Raphael's POV]Unable to reach Scarlett, Raphael sent out every button man in the family to find her.They turned New York upside down. Still, there was nothing.Looking at the dejected, frightened men under him, Raphael ground out:“Find her! Keep looking! Don't come back until you have!”The button men scattered, and the Sterling estate felt so empty it frightened him.Before, there had been Scarlett.She was a beam of light that filled every corner of the place.Now she was gone, and the estate was a huge, silent grave.Raphael wandered around in a daze.Without meaning to, he ended up at the basement.A faint smell of blood pulled at his nerves.With a shaking hand he turned on the light, and a wide stain of dried blood shot into his eyes like a bullet.He bit down on his lip until the taste of rust spread through his mouth.Only then did he understand this wasn't a nightmare.“How could this be.”He crouched and touched the blood on the floor with great care.“It can't be. It was
The Don Who Never Meant What He Said Chapter 7
I started changing my shoes.Raphael was quick. He stepped in front of me. “Where are you going?”Divorce, leaving home. Yesterday had shaken him too deeply, and he had turned even more raw than usual.Looking at his worried, wary eyes, I didn't want to set him off, so I picked an excuse at random.“Meeting a friend. Going shopping on Fifth Avenue, to clear my head.”He studied me. Then the knot between his brows loosened, and his forehead came clear and smooth as marble.He hesitated, and finally, for the first time, spoke up on his own. “I'll drive you.”I didn't refuse. Fifth Avenue, then a car to the airport, was just as good.On the way, Raphael drove, and his eyes kept stealing to the side, to me.“You really hate Daphne.” There was a thread of tension in his voice. “Don't you?”Daphne had been clinging to Raphael for a year now.I had answered this question of his more times than I could count.I hated her. I hated her beyond words.And Raphael always came back with the same lin
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