He Signed Away Our Engagement While Planning Our Wedding

After three days of the silent treatment, my fiancé, the Capo of the Moretti family, took his assistant, Bella, on an island vacation.

He expected me to be driven mad with jealousy, just as I always had been. But when he returned to Valmont a month later, he found a different woman.

He made me give up my corner office. I didn't fight him. I just packed my things and handed it over.

To prop Bella up, he discredited me in front of a key partner at the annual family meeting, just so she could shine. I didn't try to prove my innocence. I just accepted the family's reprimand and took my punishment.

When Lucas wanted to put Bella in charge of the family's most profitable business, I didn't even get angry. I handed over all the necessary documents without a fight, letting him redistribute power as he saw fit.

Bella was smug.

"See? What did I tell you?"

"A woman like her just needs a firm hand. One trip to the island and she's terrified of losing you. Look how obedient she is now."

Lucas bought it, praising Bella for her insight.

In a move he'd never made before, he promised me a wedding so grand it would become a legend in the Valmont underworld.

But he seemed to have forgotten the dissolution agreement he signed, the one I slipped him right before he got into the car for their vacation.

I had already severed all ties with him.

I was leaving, but he had no idea.

After three days of the silent treatment, my fiancé, the Capo of the Moretti family, took his assistant, Bella, on an island vacation.

He expected me to be driven mad with jealousy, just as I always had been. But when he returned to Valmont a month later, he found a different woman.

He made me give up my corner office. I didn't fight him. I just packed my things and handed it over.

To prop Bella up, he discredited me in front of a key partner at the annual family meeting, just so she could shine. I didn't try to prove my innocence. I just accepted the family's reprimand and took my punishment.

When Lucas wanted to put Bella in charge of the family's most profitable business, I didn't even get angry. I handed over all the necessary documents without a fight, letting him redistribute power as he saw fit.

Bella was smug.

"See? What did I tell you?"

"A woman like her just needs a firm hand. One trip to the island and she's terrified of losing you. Look how obedient she is now."

Lucas bought it, praising Bella for her insight.

In a move he'd never made before, he promised me a wedding so grand it would become a legend in the Valmont underworld.

But he seemed to have forgotten the dissolution agreement he signed, the one I slipped him right before he got into the car for their vacation.