Outside a private registrar’s office in Manhattan, my fiancé canceled our appointment for the ninth time. It was always the same reason: a phone call from Talia.
We’d been in love for six years. Six years, and this was the ninth time Salvatore had left me standing on this patch of sidewalk.
The first time, Talia had called in tears, claiming that once my engagement was formally recognized by the Family, she would lose Salvatore’s protection and be forced back to Sicily by her father.
Salvatore had said he couldn’t let anything happen to a girl entrusted to him by an allied Family. He postponed on the spot.
The second time, Talia got food poisoning at a dinner party on territory under Salvatore’s control. He left me behind to rush to her side at a private clinic.
He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 32 On the day the system officially went live, a heavy snow fell over Lugano. One by one, routes lit up across the main screen. From port to warehouse, from rail to sea freight, every stream of risk data completed its first successful update within
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 31 A few weeks before the project was set to go live, the bridal shop called. The wedding dress had been repaired. My mother went with me to pick it up. When the saleswoman unzipped the garment bag, I saw the strand of pearls at
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 30 Ten minutes turned into an hour. By the time I finished correcting the last bug in the model, it was already dark outside. When I walked out of the office, Desmond was still sitting on the sofa. A file rested across his lap. He
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 29 After returning to Lugano, I officially joined Conti Group. The first project the technical committee assigned me was rebuilding the risk system for all European ports. Some people worried I would simply replicate Northstar’s model. At the first internal meeting, a department head asked
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 28 The color drained from Salvatore’s face. “That’s not what I meant.” “I know it’s too late for anything I say to matter.” He pushed the ring across the table toward me. “But I think about it every day—if I hadn’t answered Talia’s call that
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 27 A week later, the final arbitration ruling on Northstar’s liquidation was issued. The nominee agreement was valid. The alliance agreement Salvatore signed later had no authority to dispose of the half that belonged to me. The Moretti family could not claim any portion of
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 26 That afternoon, the Moretti Family released a public statement. They admitted that Talia’s accusations at the wedding regarding the photos and registration records had been false, and they accepted the full outcome of the arbitration concerning the wedding dress. At the end of the
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 25 Before the arbitration result was announced, a new narrative began to spread online. *Talia is dead, and Indigo still won’t let her go.* *Was a fifty-thousand-dollar dress really worth driving someone to suicide?* *With the Conti and Bellandi families backing her, of course she
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 24 The Moretti boss let out a single, sharp laugh. “Excellent.” He shoved the alliance agreement across the table toward the Ferraro delegation. “Your heir knowingly used equity that belonged to someone else to secure our family’s support in front of witnesses.” “Now, the Ferraro
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He Married Another So I Accepted My Arranged Husband Chapter 23 The Moretti boss’s face hardened. “A single email does not overturn a publicly signed alliance agreement.” I motioned for my adviser to continue. A voice waveform appeared on the screen, and Salvatore’s voice filled the room. “We’re going to get married sooner or later
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