She Catfished The Don As Me, Now She Regrets It Chapter 05
I walked into the ballroom step by step. With every step. Livia’s face grew paler.
Livia stood frozen, her raised hand hanging awkwardly in midair.
It took her a long moment to find her voice. “You… how are you here?” she muttered in disbelief.
Beside her, Caius slowly turned. His sharp eyes flicked back and forth between us.
His brows drew together in confusion.
Then he looked at the deathly pale Livia beside him and asked in a
hoarse voice, “Darling, who is this?”
Livia snapped back to reality as panic flooded through her.
She knew exactly what kind of man Caius was. The one thing he hated most was being lied to.
If he found out the person he’d been talking to for three months wasn’t the Valenti princess but a Capo’s daughter…
She shivered, refusing to finish the thought.
After the initial panic, a flash of madness crossed Livia’s eyes.
She clenched her fists tight, forcing down her fear, and suddenly looked up. “You’re nothing more than a Capo’s daughter. How dare you impersonate me? Who gave you the audacity?”
In my previous life, she had done the exact same thing–pinned all the blame on me.
Did she really think it would work again?
Whispers spread through the crowd like a wave.
“What’s going on? Two Valenti daughters?”
“They look identical, but the one next to Don Romano seems terrified…”
“Looks like the real show is about to start.”
Livia heard the whispers all around her.
Forcing herself to remain calm, she tried to pin every accusation on me.
She stared at me and spat out every word. “You impersonated me because you wanted to steal my place. Did you really think that just because we look alike, you could replace me?”
I looked at her, amazed anyone could be this shameless.
Caius stood to the side, studying me, then Livia again. The warmth in his eyes vanished completely, replaced by cold scrutiny.
I curled my lips into a cold smile and said sharply. “Livia, you’ve got some nerve. You impersonated me in front of all these guests and you still dare to turn it around on me?”
“You’re lying!” Livia struggled to control her trembling. “You’re nothing but a lowly Capo’s daughter who’s jealous of everything I have. You’re the one impersonating me.”
I almost laughed at her audacity. “You may have fooled the guests who don’t know the truth. You may even have fooled Caius for the past three months. But do you really think you can fool the parents who gave birth to me and raised me?”
I turned toward the back of the ballroom and raised my voice slightly. “Dad, Mom, come out.”
The moment the words left my mouth, two commanding figures with powerful presences walked in.
My mom was shaking with rage. My dad’s face was dark as thunder.
Livia completely lost it. She suddenly remembered what had happened to the last person who lied to Caius–he was still lying in a hospital bed.
Fear overwhelmed her, sweeping away the last trace of reason she had left.
She knew Caius’s bottom line. If she lost him completely, she would have nothing.
So she couldn’t admit it.
Admitting it would end everything.
She took a deep breath and forced herself to stay calm. “I didn’t lie
to you. She’s the one impersonating me. Those two people she brought aren’t her parents. She hired them to pretend to be her parents, all so she could steal my place.”