Chapter 3 - The Traitor's Bargain
Bianca didn't stay with Lorenzo out of love or loyalty. She stayed because she had discovered a deeply buried, highly classified succession clause hidden within the ironclad Vitali family trust documents.
The clause, written decades ago by Lorenzo’s ruthless grandfather, explicitly stated that the head of the Vitali family must be physically capable of leading. If the reigning boss suffered a permanent, incapacitating injury and could not physically walk down the aisle to complete a formalized transfer of power during a marriage ceremony, the absolute control of the multi-billion-dollar empire would automatically default to the secondary board of directors.
And the man who controlled the majority of that secondary board was Don Ferretti—an older, incredibly smug, and deeply corrupt rival boss who had spent his entire life desperately trying to destroy the Vitali bloodline.
Don Ferretti approached Bianca shortly after Lorenzo’s accident. He offered her a monstrous, irresistible deal. If Bianca agreed to publicly humiliate Lorenzo by abandoning him at the altar in front of the entire syndicate, thereby triggering the medical incompetence clause, Ferretti would instantly seize the empire. In return for her treachery, Ferretti promised to wire thirty million dollars into Bianca’s untraceable offshore accounts and provide her with safe passage out of the country.
Bianca, utterly repulsed by the idea of spending her youth caring for a paralyzed man, accepted the blood money without a single second of hesitation.
She spent months staging the perfect, elaborate wedding. She bought the most expensive white lace gown, hired a massive orchestra, and invited every single powerful figure in the criminal and corporate underworld. She wanted the audience to be as large as possible to ensure Lorenzo’s absolute, unrecoverable destruction.
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She smiled in his face, kissed his cheek, and walked down the marble stairs, leaving him entirely broken in his wheelchair.
👉 Read Part 4 to return to the suffocating humiliation in the mansion garden.
