Chapter 9
He pointed at Vivian with a shaking hand.
“She seduced me! It really had nothing to do with me!”
Luca bent down and picked up one of the reports off the floor.
His fingers were trembling.
He stared at the words on the page as the blood drained from his face inch by inch.
“That’s impossible… It’s fake. It has to be fake…”
Then he jerked his head up.
His voice was almost out of control.
“If I really had azoospermia, then how could Rita Conti have gotten pregnant? She loved me that much.”
‘She would never have betrayed me.”
Someone below let out a cold laugh.
“Don, that question? We brought you the answer to that too.”
The crowd parted.
A doctor was escorted forward, and he let out a sigh.
Then he pulled a yellowed report from a file envelope.
‘This is your premarital exam report from ten years ago. Don, you really did have azoospermia.”
He paused.
His voice grew complicated. “As for why Donna was able to get pregnant… She has a rare condition.”
‘She is one of the very few women in the world capable of activating your sperm.”
‘In other words, she was the only person in this world who could ever bear your child.”
He looked at Luca and hesitated. “As I recall… Donna was already eight months pregnant.”
‘At the very least, you still had one biological child. You should have cherished her-and that baby.”
The words landed.
And Luca looked like he’d been struck by lightning, his whole body locking up.
Then, in the next second, he stumbled backward and dropped to the floor.
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His lips had gone pale.
His voice shook violently. “My child… My child…”
He grabbed at his own hair like he was losing his mind. “What did I do… What did I do… I killed my own child
with my own hands…”
The entire room had gone silent.
And right then, footsteps sounded at the entrance.
A group of uniformed officers walked in.
“Vivian Clark.”
“You are under arrest for filing a false police report and fabricating injuries. You need to come with us.”
Vivian’s face changed completely.
She burst into tears and threw herself toward Luca. “Don! Save me! I don’t want to go!”
‘I don’t want to go to jail! You said you’d protect me!”
But Luca only slowly lifted his head, his eyes now ice-cold, not a trace of warmth left in them. “Vivian Clark.
You lied to me.”
‘For a woman like you. For a bastard child, I hurt the person who loved me most. And I killed the only child I
could ever have.”
His voice was terrifyingly low. “I won’t let you get away with this.”
Vivian froze.
Then she screamed in total collapse, “Luca! You can’t do this to me! I did everything for you-”
Her voice was dragged away with her.
And then it was gone.
The wedding ended in complete ruin.
Luca lurched to his feet like a madman and seized his assistant by the collar.
‘Where’s Rita?! Where is she?! I’m going to find her!”
“I’ll beg her! I’ll give her anything she wants! The business, the money, everything! As long as she forgives
me…”
His assistant’s expression turned bitter.
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After a moment of silence, he finally said in a low voice, ‘Don… Donna is already gone.”
Luca stared blankly. “Gone?”
The assistant nodded. ‘She left a message for you before she went.”
Luca’s throat tightened. “What did she say?”
The assistant lowered his head. ‘She said, ‘From this day on, even in life and death, you and I will never meet
again.”
The sentence fell.
And it was as if everything inside Luca had been ripped out at once.
Later, scandal after scandal exploded around the Moretti family.
His azoospermia, the fake wedding, and the dirty dealings in his business all spread across the internet
overnight.
Partners pulled out one after another.
The stock price crashed.
Within a few short months, the company went into bankruptcy liquidation.
Its assets were carved up clean by the very rivals who had once waited for him to fall.
People said that the last time anyone saw Luca, he was sitting alone in an empty office.
On the desk in front of him sat a cheap, plain silver ring.
The men from those rival families wired the money into my account.
I took it and used the money to open a coffee shop.
It wasn’t big.
But it was quiet.
The sunlight was good there every day.
I ground the coffee beans myself and welcomed my own customers.
Life slowly turned calm.
Later, I heard that Luca sold everything he had left.
He begged everywhere.
All he wanted was one chance to see me.
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Some people said he knelt in the rain all night.
Others said he went half-mad, repeating the same sentence over and over.
“I was wrong.”
But I never looked back.
Some mistakes can’t be erased with regret.
And I had finally learned how to live without him.
