The Real Mafia Heiress Chapter 04
I held the phone to my ear, rushing to finish my call to
Torres. “Bring the whole team to my parents‘
countryside villa immediately-”
Before I could finish speaking, Lilith snatched the
phone out of my grasp and hurled it hard against the stone floor.
“Drop the act, you manipulative whore! This isn’t your parents‘ villa–it’s the house my mom bought for me!”
The classmates shot me nothing but disgusted stares,
several of them shouting insults.
“Everyone else lives in the dorms except her, always running off somewhere instead of staying on campus.”
“I thought she had legitimate business to tend to, but she’s just a parasite leeching off Lilith’s family and stealing her mom’s affection.”
“Disgusting.”
“No wonder her parents died young–they must be rolling in their graves knowing how shameless she is.”
“Some people will latch onto any powerful mafia family just to climb the social ladder, desperate for a
rich surrogate mother.”
“Lilith’s way too kind to put up with this. If someone tried stealing my mom from me, I’d tear them apart.”
I ignored their jeers and locked eyes with Lilith, my tone sharp and unyielding. “I suggest you call your mom right now and ask her who this villa legally belongs to.”
Lilith’s face darkened instantly. She stepped forward and grabbed a fistful of my shirt collar. “Don’t think you can trick her into coming over so you can keep mooching off her wealth!”
Her gaze
drifted down to the necklace resting against my neck, and a greedy glint flashed across her eyes. “That necklace looks expensive–another gift you conned my mom into buying for you, isn’t it?”
With no warning, she gave the chain a brutal yank. I didn’t have time to react before the necklace ripped free from my throat and landed in her palm.
Panic surged through me. “Give that back to me right now!”
My desperate reaction only fueled Lilith’s malice. “You’re this upset over it? Must’ve cost my mom a fortune.”
I rushed to plead with her. “It was my mother’s gift to me. It’s not worth much money, but it means everything. Hand it back.”
I reached out to grab it, desperate to retrieve the pendant.
That necklace was a protective talisman my mother had sacrificed everything to get for me.
I’d suffered crippling chronic illness as a child, and at ten years old, I’d fallen critically ill and plunged into a coma at a private hospital. The doctors had told my
parents to prepare for my funeral.
Refusing to accept it, my mother traveled to an ancient
cathedral in Sicily to pray for my survival.
To prove her devotion, she’d knelt every single step up
the mountain in sweltering forty–degree heat, her
knees raw and bleeding, her forehead split open from
bowing so hard she nearly lost consciousness. Only then had the elderly priest given her the pendant.
Some miracle had answered her prayers—after days
unresponsive, I woke up. But the pilgrimage had
broken my mother’s health beyond repair.
On her deathbed, she pressed the necklace into my
hands, begging me to guard it with my life.
I never took it off, not even for a single day. It was the
last piece of her sacrifice, my most sacred treasure-
the one thing I would never allow anyone to destroy.
“The more you beg for it, the more I want to wreck it.”
Before I could reach her, Lilith raised the necklace
high and slammed it onto the stone floor with all her strength.
A sharp, shattering crack cut through the air. The
pendant split into dozens of fragments scattered
across the ground.
“No!”
Watching my mother’s last precious gift shatter before my eyes felt like a knife twisted straight through my chest. Every breath burned with agony.
“You’re a monster.” I’d reached my breaking point. I
raised my hand and struck Lilith across the face.
“How dare you hit me, you bitch?” Lilith screamed,
clutching her cheek. “Beat her to a pulp! Whoever
hurts her the most gets a million dollars from my mom as a reward!”
The students‘ eyes lit up with greed at the promise of
cash. They swarmed me like starved dogs.
A barrage of fists and kicks rained down upon me.
“You dare lay a hand on Lilith? Her mom’s the
wealthiest female Don in the city–you’re nothing compared to her!”
“Exactly, you’re a homeless mooch; you couldn’t
afford jewelry like that on your own. You tricked
Lilith’s mom into buying it, so she can destroy her own property if she wants!”
“You’ve got no right to get mad over this.”
“Shameless leech–you steal another woman’s
mother and then attack her real daughter? You’re begging for trouble:”
“Don’t even mention your own mother–your folks.
died young for raising a disgrace like you.”
They forced me flat onto the floor, my body throbbing
with numb pain. But physical hurt paled in comparison
to the white–hot rage boiling in my bones.
I gritted my teeth hard enough to taste blood, forcing the words out between clenched jaws. “You’ll all regret this.”
The crowd erupted into mocking laughter, as if I’d told
the funniest joke they’d ever heard.
“Regret what? Lilith’s mom runs a billion–dollar mafia empire–who do you think you are to threaten us?”
“You’re just a penniless orphan who mooches off
other people’s families, throwing empty threats because you’ve got nothing else.”
“A homeless nobody with no property to her name, throwing a useless temper tantrum.‘
Several of them pinned my arms to the ground to hold
me captive, taunting and humiliating me without restraint.
Lilith pushed through the crowd, grabbed a handful of my hair, and forced my head upward to stare down at
her as she squatted beside me, oozing arrogance.
“Regret it? I’ve never regretted a single thing in my
life. I’d love to see how a worthless stray like you makes me pay for this.”
The second her words faded, a convoy of sleek black
luxury vehicles roared up the gravel driveway, tires screeching harshly. Within seconds, rows of cars lined the villa’s front gate.
Doors flew open, and uniformed Moretti family
bodyguards in tailored black suits stepped out in unison.
Torres climbed out of the final sedan, briefcase in
hand, his face completely devoid of emotion. Behind
him walked the estate inventory team and two senior family executors.
Every single one of them bowed deeply in perfect
unison. “Miss Moretti. We apologize for our delay.”