The Don’s Deception

When I was five months pregnant, my mafia husband Dante Pierce had an affair with his childhood sweetheart.

That was when I discovered that our marriage certificate was fake. He had secretly married someone else behind my back.

Even worse, the child I was carrying would be excluded from the family inheritance. From beginning to end, I was nothing more than a public front for his precious childhood sweetheart.

After learning the truth, I did not cry or throw a tantrum. I quietly erased my legal identity, changed my name and disappeared forever with my child.

However, later, everyone claimed that Dante, head of the Pierce family, was a hopeless romantic who had given up everything to search for the wife and child who had vanished without a trace.

In the villa's greenhouse, Dante Pierce pressed me against the floor-to-ceiling glass wall, kissing me until my whole body went weak.

The bright sunlight and waves of floral fragrance made me increasingly dizzy with desire.

His large hands roamed freely over my body, skillfully removing my clothes. When I was completely bare, my face flushed red as I pressed my hands against his chest.

He chuckled softly and whispered in my ear, "I sent all of the maids away. What are you embarrassed about?"

"Be careful with the baby..."

"It's fine. The doctor said it's okay. I'll be gentle..."

The usually cold man's face was tinged red. His movements were tender yet dominant. I held him tightly, forced to endure his intensity as waves of pleasure left my mind completely blank.

Suddenly, an unexpected phone ring interrupted the intimate atmosphere filling the room. Dante frowned and reached for the phone to hang up, but after seeing the caller ID, he answered instead.

My consciousness slowly returned and I heard the voice of Dante's friend, Harvey Wells, coming through the phone.

"Dante, are you really going to..."

Before Harvey could finish, Dante interrupted him in fluent Italian, "Lily's still here. Watch what you say!"

The person on the other end fell silent for a moment before responding in Italian, "Have you lost your mind? You're really going to marry Nina? Five years ago, when she was kidnapped, you broke your leg saving her. Then, when the family abandoned you, she left you for another man. Can you actually forgive that?"

Dante's brow furrowed slightly as he replied calmly, "If she doesn't marry me, the Lace family will force her into an arranged marriage with that old man from the Boone family. I can't bear to see her suffer like that."

"What about Lily? When your leg was ruined and the family abandoned you in that old mansion, she was the one who stayed with you through it all. She loves you so much. How can you betray her?"

Faced with his friend's angry questions, Dante's expression remained unchanged as he answered coldly, "I'll prepare a fake marriage certificate for her. I love her anyway, so what does it matter if the certificate