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Chapter 7

مؤلف: Rainy Bell
Enzo's expression turned cold. "That's impossible."

Isabella replied in a voice utterly devoid of emotion, "Enzo, don't forget that the baby Sofia killed was also yours.

"Now, you can choose to either let the baby she's carrying pay for my baby's life and buy you both peace for the rest of your days, or you can keep dragging this out with me in an endless, deathless feud."

Enzo stared at her, his gaze growing darker by the second.

The hatred in Isabella's eyes was too deep. That kind of madness, suppressed beneath such calm, was far more unsettling than any tears or hysterics.

Enzo knew perfectly well she wasn't speaking out of anger. After all, Isabella was never the kind of woman who just stood quietly in his shadow. Behind her stood the Rossi family and Luca, who had always been secretly working against him.

He simply couldn't afford to gamble on this.

After a long moment, he clenched his fists. Then, he turned and walked out of the hospital without a word.

The moment the door slammed shut behind him, the entire floor seemed to shudder with the force of it.

Isabella slowly opened her eyes and looked again toward the small, shadowy figure by the window.

In her previous life, it was Enzo who had imprisoned her in the underground cellar and caused her to lose the baby.

In this life, she would make him take the baby from Sofia's womb with his own hands.

That was only fair.

An hour later, Sofia's piercing, distorted scream suddenly rang out from the corridor.

Isabella braced herself against the edge of the bed and sat up. Forcing herself through the agonizing pain that wracked her entire body, she made her way slowly to the door.

Outside the door, Sofia was being pinned down by two Soldati. She struggled frantically. Her hair scattered wildly across her face, making her look utterly deranged.

"No! Enzo, have you lost your mind? That's our baby! Please don't hurt him! Don't take him away! Enzo… Enzo!"

She wept until her voice broke, the sound filled with nothing but pure despair.

Doctors and nurses rushed over. Someone held her arm down while someone else injected a sedative into her vein.

Sofia's legs gave out, and she crumpled straight to the floor.

Enzo stepped forward and caught her, and even his eyes had turned red.

He held her and said in a trembling voice, "Sofia, we'll have other kids in the future."

Sofia suddenly bit down hard on his arm. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she was crying so hard her face had twisted into something ugly.

"Enzo, I hate you! I hate you!"

She was quickly wheeled into the operating room.

The red light came on.

The corridor fell silent all at once. Only Enzo remained standing outside, his back as rigid and frozen as a block of stone.

A long time later, he finally turned his head slowly and looked at Isabella standing in the doorway. That look in his eyes already bordered on hatred.

"Are you satisfied now?"

Isabella only felt how absurdly laughable it all was. They were the ones who had destroyed everything of hers first, and yet she was being painted as the most vicious one of all.

Her face was deathly pale. The pain from her ribs and the wound on her head throbbed in tandem. Even just standing there took everything she had.

Still, she didn't retreat a single step.

"Who knows, maybe you two are just putting on another performance for me."

Enzo's pupils constricted sharply. "I have never lied to you."

Isabella looked at him with a faint smirk. "But you had an affair."

No one knew a person's weakest points better than the one who once loved them most.

Neither of them spoke another word.

The light in the operating room went out.

When Sofia was wheeled out, she looked as if she had been hollowed out. Her face was frighteningly pale, and her eyes were so swollen she could barely open them.

Enzo immediately stepped forward and gathered her into his arms. But the moment Sofia felt his touch, she mustered every last ounce of strength and slapped him hard across the face.

The crack was so sharp it echoed through the entire corridor.

Enzo's head was knocked to the side, yet he didn't get angry. Instead, he just held her tighter and carried her toward another VIP room, murmuring apologies the whole way.

As she leaned in his arms and passed by Isabella, Sofia suddenly turned her head. The look she shot her was pure venom.

Isabella watched her quietly, then turned her gaze once more toward the small, shadowy figure by the window and said softly, "Mommy has avenged you."

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