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 14 “That day, you stood right where you are now and said nothing.” The blood drained from my father’s face. I walked up the steps and took the belt from the adviser’s hand. “I’ll do it myself.” Without my Core, I had almost no strength. The leather belt felt as
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 13 On the day of the family tribunal, the courtyard below the stone steps was packed. Every core member of the family was present. Several allied families had also sent representatives to observe. Isabella was dragged onto the steps. The same steps where I had taken thirty lashes just over
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 12 “The original plan was just that Mr. Romano had been arrested and the women would be confined for one night.” “The part about being sent to Blackwood for processing—Isabella added that herself.” The maid glanced at Isabella, her voice shrinking to a whisper. “She said the old matriarch would
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 11 No one in the room could answer me. My father sank to his knees. My older brother and second brother dropped to the floor beside him. Colton knelt closest to me, right in front of the coffin, but he didn’t dare lift his head. “Blythe,” my older brother said,
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 10 “She’s alive! She’s possessed! She tried to kill me!” Colton drew his gun. He aimed it at me. I sat in the coffin, blood from my shoulder seeping into my wedding dress. I looked at the gun and suddenly, I laughed. “Colton,” I said, “you’re pointing a gun at
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 09 I grabbed her wrist. Isabella froze for a split second, then let out a piercing shriek. “A ghost! There’s a ghost!” The burning paper dropped from her hand, igniting a corner of the carpet. She tore her arm from my grasp and stumbled back. When she saw that I
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 08 The box of chocolates my older brother was carrying scattered across the floor. My second brother knelt beside his wife. When he saw her hand covering her stomach, he seemed to understand everything at once. He coughed, and a spray of blood splattered the stone floor. Colton stood frozen
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 07 Dawn came. Finally, the men from the main house made their way down to the chapel. They brought thermal blankets, cashmere shawls, hot soup, and a box of chocolates. My father walked in front, still giving instructions. “When we see Nonna, everyone apologize. Let her scold us as much
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 06 I told him no. That night, Isabella jumped from a terrace at the estate. A patrol guard caught her before she hit the ground. The next night, they came for me. My older brother pinned my shoulders. My second brother held my legs. My father stood over me, a
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Make Them Regret It Chapter 05 I gripped that capsule for a long time. My mind went back to a month before. That was when Isabella had just been found and brought home. She was my parents’ biological daughter. We had been switched at birth, more than twenty years ago. She had spent two decades
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