I Won't Save You Twice The Body Collector's RevengeChapter 1
I was an ordinary body collector from Millhaven, the forgotten neighborhood on the river where my family had performed the grim work of retrieving the dead for as long as anyone could remember. By chance, I pulled both Frederico Valente, heir to the most powerful syndicate in the Five Families, and the young capo Omero Rossetti from the water the night of a botched ambush. I became pregnant with Frederico's child.
On the day of our blood-bound union, Frederico never showed. He took his procession to the Volpe estate and married Chloe Volpe instead.
I tried to confront him, but Omero Rossetti stepped in my way.
He confessed that he was the one who'd gotten me pregnant that night. He said he was willing to marry me and take care of me for the rest of my life.
A month after the wedding, armed men descended on Millhaven. All one hundred and ten households were slaughtered. Not a single soul survived.
Standing before that mountain of corpses, I collapsed under the weight of my grief. I lost the baby.
Omero never left my side, never even changed out of his bloodstained clothes. It took a long time, but slowly, he pulled me back from the edge.
Three years later, I was pregnant again. I wanted to tell Omero the good news right away, but on my way to find him, I overheard a conversation between him and a friend in the back room of the social club.
"Omero, Frederico keeps undermining you at every turn. Doesn't that eat at you? Back then, you married Penelope Mancini for his sake and even claimed a child that wasn't yours."
"I didn't do it for him. I did it for Chloe. In the Families, the firstborn son inherits regardless of his mother's rank. If Penelope had given birth to a Valente heir first, how would Chloe ever secure her place in the compound?"
"We all know you're hopelessly in love with Chloe Volpe, but did you really have to massacre everyone in Millhaven to keep them quiet? The body collectors have been all but wiped out since then."
"I had no choice. The people in Millhaven knew too much. To eliminate any future threat, every last one of them had to die."
I had always believed that falling for Frederico Valente was the greatest mistake of my life. I never imagined that falling for Omero Rossetti would prove a far worse one.
……