《My Rival Bragged About Her Don Husband, But He Was My Secret Husband》全部章節：第 1 章 - 第 10 章

On the drive to the city, I scrolled back through the group chat.The wedding preparations had apparently started a month ago, roughly when Julian and I had last seen each other.The thread was wall-to-wall flattery and showing off."Selena, is that gown really from a Milan designer? It's stunning!""The groom has such a presence. He really does look like a Don."I almost laughed. Julian had a decent face, but his presence was nothing special. He was a second son who'd climbed up on my family's coattails.Three years ago, our family needed to open up a freight corridor. Sandro had looked at a dozen small crews and landed on the Moretti. The eldest son was already married, so they sent their second boy, Julian, as the offering.The first time I met him, he'd shaved clean, wore a faint hint of cedarwood cologne, and had a face that was, genuinely, very good.He'd arranged 999 fresh tulips flown in from Holland, plus a sapphire necklace, the very symbol of a Donna. Not even the eldest bro

Dylan caught the direction of Selena's gaze and elbowed Sara."Whose car is that?"Sara squinted. A black matte-finish sedan sat in the shade.Casey went over, peered at the hood ornament, and made a dismissive sound. "What off-brand piece of junk is this? Pulling up to Selena's wedding in that?"Annie laughed. "The paint's so faded — did someone pick it up secondhand?"That was my father's Lancia Thema, his signature car. It looked its age, but the armor underneath was the latest and the best. It was what the Costanzo name meant: strength that didn't need to announce itself. Any mafia member would take one look at that car and think twice about who was sitting inside.Selena stared at it a long time.Then she pushed through the people in front of her and walked toward me on her heels.She stopped directly in front of me, raised her hand, and slapped me across the face.The sound cut through the room.My head jerked to one side and my cheek burned. Has this woman lost her mind?She wen

Sandro had arrived with a column of men behind him. He crossed to me quickly, took in my condition, and let something like distress show on his face as he put a steadying hand on my arm."I'm sorry, Miss Ava. I should have been here sooner.""It's handled now."Well. Now everyone would find out exactly who the mistress was.Sandro scanned the wrecked car and his face went still."Who did this?"Nobody in the room made a sound.Except Selena.She was still holding her head high."Just a little lesson for whoever thought she could go after Julian. She had it coming."She had probably never experienced, in her entire life, what a real lesson felt like.Sandro's jaw tightened.“Julian?”"Miss Ava is the Costanzo heir. They registered three years ago. The marriage was never made public."Selena stood still for two full seconds. Then her lips started to shake. She turned to the room."I don't know this man! How would anyone know if he's telling the truth? Julian and I have been together almo

I'd only met Margaret once.That was the day we signed the marriage paperwork, three years ago. She'd come over trying to play the mother-in-law card, launching into some speech about how I'd need to conduct myself now that I was married—The Moretti family people had pulled her away before she got far.A true, unredeemable fool. That was my assessment, and so in three years I'd never gone to see her once.Selena spotted me the moment I walked in and her smile got wider. She steered Margaret straight toward me."Ava, you know who this is, right?""Julian's mother. And she's agreed to let us get married.""Oh? Does Julian know?"I looked at her with honest curiosity.Margaret's face went stiff."Your marriage to Julian was rushed into by the older generation. And in three years, you've barely set foot in his home. You've never appeared at a single event beside him. You're a deeply inadequate wife."She paused."Julian hasn't said so directly, but I've seen it. Why do you think he ended

The Costanzo family's internal succession was officially settled and announced: Ava Costanzo, sole legitimate heir, assuming full authority over all family operations.The papers covered it. So did the television stations.Jason told me: "Everyone in the chat saw it. Nobody said a word all day."Now they were scared.That evening, Dylan posted one line: "So, those people at the wedding. They were real?" No one answered.The people who'd laid hands on me at the wedding left the group chat one by one, like it had never happened.Selena went silent.I took my position as heir but still said nothing publicly about my marriage to Julian. That forced him to go to extreme lengths trying to win back my forgiveness.In the days that followed, Casey and the others all found themselves mysteriously let go from their jobs, and even their parents couldn't hold onto theirs.Mr. Gray was terminated without notice and no school in the area would take him.Dylan apparently got drunk, got into a fight,