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Semua Bab After I Died, the Mafia King Went Mad: Bab 1 - Bab 7

7 Bab

Chapter 1

A year after we remarried, I went to the hospital alone after days of nausea and exhaustion.“Congratulations,” the doctor said with a smile. “You’re eight weeks pregnant. The baby looks healthy, development is right on track, and everything seems stable. Just get plenty of rest and don’t overdo it.”I walked out of the exam room clutching the scan report, I was already imagining the look on his face when I told him.Then I looked up—and stopped cold.At the far end of the corridor, Luca Moretti was holding a little boy no older than one. His expression was soft, patient, almost tender. Beside him stood Sofia Romano in a loose beige dress, her features delicate, her voice low and gentle.The same woman who had once torn through my marriage under the excuse of one drunken mistake.For a second, my mind went completely blank.Before I could stop myself, I followed them.They disappeared into a pediatric exam room just down the hall. I stayed just outside, hidden from view, and listened.

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Chapter 2

After everything was arranged, I went home.The moment I stepped through the front door and handed my coat to one of the maids, I heard Luca’s voice drift from the dining room.“Elena, where have you been?”He came toward me fast, his brow drawn tight, the worry in his face completely unhidden.“I called you several times. You never answered. I was close to sending men out to look for you.”As he spoke, he took my bag from my hand like it was the most natural thing in the world.“The kitchen just got in a fresh shipment of salmon from that supplier you love in Sicily. I had the chef prepare it two ways for you—carpaccio and seared in cream sauce. Another twenty minutes and it would’ve been ruined.”He said it so easily, so familiarly, as if there had never been a fracture between us. As if the scene I had witnessed at the hospital only hours ago—him with Sofia and their little boy—had been some grotesque hallucination instead of the truth.I looked at him and felt cold all the way thro

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Chapter 3

When I woke the next morning, Luca’s side of the bed was already empty.Just then, my phone vibrated on the nightstand.It was the call from the company.“Ms. Elena Moretti, everything you requested is in place. Cleanup, severing your identity, and establishing your new one have all been completed.”I gave a quiet hum of acknowledgment and ended the call.A second later, another message appeared on my screen. This one was from Luca.Elena, something urgent came up at the casino. I have to handle it myself. Go on ahead to Emerald Isle and wait for me there.Emerald Isle.I looked at the words, and a faint, bitter smile touched my lips.Two years ago, Luca had bought the private island for an obscene amount of money. White sand, a private dock, a glass villa facing the sea. When he placed the deed in my hands, he had held my fingers and promised that every anniversary, he would take me there for a few quiet days, away from everyone else.But the truth was, he had never once really been f

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Chapter 4

Luca POV“Don, something’s happened!”My aide practically slammed the door open on his way in, sweat beading across his forehead, his voice stripped raw with panic.Sofia Romano was sitting in the corner of the sofa, the child in her arms, trying to soothe him in a low voice. He had been crying for half the afternoon. I had managed to calm him long enough to get him to sleep for a few minutes, but the second I handed him back, he started fussing again.I was already on edge. The moment my aide burst in like that, my expression darkened.“Have you forgotten the rules?”He looked ghost-pale. He could barely catch his breath.“Mrs. Moretti… something happened to Mrs. Moretti. The yacht she took to Emerald Isle exploded on the route.”My fingers stopped cold.The child was still making those small restless sounds in Sofia’s arms, but all of it suddenly felt far away.I lifted my eyes to my aide.“Say that again.”He swallowed hard, barely able to look at me.“The coast patrol just reported

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Chapter 5

Luca POVThe search at sea went on all night.I never left the marina.The wind came hard after dark. Waves kept slamming against the docks, carrying that sharp salt stink that cut straight through clothes and skin. Searchlights swept back and forth across the water, slicing the black swells into strips of white. Farther out, the salvage boats were still working. The low grind of machinery never stopped.“Don, you haven’t rested all night,” my aide said quietly. “The search teams are handling the water. Maybe you should go to the rest room for a while—”“Have they found her?”He stopped talking.The wind pushed through the open collar of my shirt like a blade. I should have been freezing. I should have been exhausted. Instead I felt nothing. It was like I’d been suspended in midair, unable to fall, unable to wake.At three in the morning, the head of the search team came back with his third report.“Don, we’ve expanded the recovery area to the southeastern waters. We’ve checked all the

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Chapter 6

I landed in the city three days later.As the plane cut through layers of cloud and began its slow descent, I leaned against the window and looked down at the red-tiled rooftops below, the stone streets catching the first wash of morning light, and the quiet stretch of blue sea opening in the distance.This was where everything would begin again.A new name.A new home.New accounts.A new number.Even the hospital I would go to for the next few months, the doctor I would see, the medication and vitamins I would need regularly—someone had arranged it all before I ever arrived.The airport was crowded, voices and footsteps echoing under the glass ceiling as I pulled my suitcase toward the exit. My reflection moved across the sliding doors ahead of me. My hair now brushed my shoulders, the ends curled softly inward. Nothing like the long, meticulously styled waves that used to fall to my waist.I used to live in heels and tailored dresses, polished and perfect, like something displayed b

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Chapter 7

By the spring two years later, the season felt gentler than any spring I could remember.The vines outside the flower shop had pushed out tender new growth again, climbing slowly up the wall. Sunlight slanted in from the end of the street, laying a soft, quiet glow over everything. I stood behind the flower stand, trimming a fresh delivery. The sunflowers were almost painfully bright, while the blue hyacinths rested off to one side, restrained somehow, as if they had learned to hold their own feelings in.Noah was playing near the entrance. Every so often, I looked up to make sure he hadn’t wandered too far and hadn’t reached for any of the thorned stems.I was bent over clipping flower stalks when the bell above the door gave a light chime.The sound was soft, but my fingers stopped on the stem.“Excuse me—do you have any blue hyacinths?”For a moment, I went completely still.Some voices time does not take.It’s Luca.I didn’t look up right away. I finished trimming the stem in my ha

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