To make the biological daughter he’d only just found feel at home, my father personally carved my Core from my body. Then my fiancé beat me thirty times with a belt.
They told me if I called off the engagement, it would all be over.
Later, they staged an elaborate charade to make me believe our family was destroyed, all to force me to break.
That night, my grandmother, my mother, my two sisters-in-law, and my five-year-old niece all died.
Before they pushed open the chapel doors, the last thing they said was, “It’s only one night. How bad can it be?”
The doors opened.
My grandmother sat peacefully on the pew, her chest still. My mother and both my sisters-in-law were gone. My niece lay in my arms, her small body already cold.
I was wearing a wedding dress, with blood still crusted at the corner of my mouth.
By the time the sun rose, every woman in the Romano family was dead.
Make Them Regret It Chapter 34 “Blythe, Antonio has already resigned. Your brothers have voluntarily withdrawn from their positions. Colton has been kneeling outside the estate gates for days.” “They know they were wrong.” “Knowing you’re wrong isn’t the same as paying a debt.” I laid Isabella’s case file in front of him. “They admitted
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 33 I had planned to return to Boston with my grandmother. But when I passed the family archives, I stopped. The files from Isabella’s interrogation were still on the table. The maid’s testimony, the statements from the three hired men, the guards’ admission that they had deliberately refused to open
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 32 “I failed her.” My grandmother turned and slapped him across the face. Hard. His head snapped to the side, but he didn’t move to block it. “The day she married you, I asked if you would protect her. You knelt before me and swore you would never let her
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 31 My grandmother didn’t interrupt me once. Only after I finished did she look down and see the old, faded scars on my wrist. “They did that to you, too?” “Yes.” She raised a hand as if to touch me, then hesitated, as if afraid she might hurt me. In
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 30 On the seventh day after I arrived in Boston, I finally met my grandmother. It was raining. I stood in front of a brownstone and knocked three times. When the door opened, a silver-haired woman held onto the frame and looked at me for a long time. “You’re Blythe.”
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 29 The dagger slid free of its sheath. Colton’s face changed, and he reached out to stop me. “Blythe!” The blade came down, gouging a deep scar across the car’s hood. The force of the blow shattered the fragments into powder. A gust of wind scattered them in every direction.
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 28 “Blythe, the pieces can be repaired.” That was the first thing Colton said. He was still wearing that black suit. The blood on his shirt had dried to a dark brown. His palms were covered in cuts, as if he hadn’t bothered to treat them. A small toolkit sat
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 27 Gia, Auntie doesn’t hurt anymore. Then I remembered what my grandmother had said in my dream. “See the world for us.” That year, I was twenty-three. At a cost to my health I didn’t yet fully understand, I had gotten back the Core I had lost and regained my
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 26 The day I left Romano Manor, the weather was beautiful. My father was waiting for me at the door. In his hands was an old cloak I had worn as a child. My mother had sewn it herself, and a small rose was embroidered on the cuff. “Blythe.” He
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 25 “Gia split her favorite chocolate in half for you the first time she met you.” “I laid out my room, my jewelry, and my trust shares and told you to choose whatever you wanted.” “You had a home.” “You destroyed it with your own hands.” Isabella’s mouth fell open,
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