After My Brother’s Girlfriend Tried to Extort 500,000 from Me, I Revealed I Was the Mafia Donna Chapter 05

After My Brother’s Girlfriend Tried to Extort 500,000 from Me, I Revealed I Was the Mafia Donna Chapter 05

Luca swallowed hard.

For a long moment, he said nothing.

He’d been afraid of me since we were children. Not because I had a bad temper, but because he knew exactly who our father had entrusted with the Family’s real power all these years.

Still, in front of his friends, he clearly didn’t want to admit it.

Especially tonight, with Vanessa crying behind him and all of them watching.

He took a deep breath, walked over and pulled me aside.

“Isa, what exactly are you playing at? Do you have to humiliate me in front of everyone?”

I stared at him.

“Humiliate you?”

He lowered his voice.

“Vanessa’s got a temper. She didn’t know who you were, and you hardly ever show your face in public. Of course she got the wrong idea.”

“Besides, you never make your position in the Family public. Of course she thought you were just…”

He stopped.

“Just what?” I asked.

Luca looked away.

“Forget it. You’re older than she is, and you know the Family rules better. Let it go this once.”

For a second, I thought I must have heard him wrong.

“She had me locked in a storage room, had me beaten and forced me to pay one million dollars. And you’re telling me to let it go?”

Luca’s expression shifted.

“She says you weren’t exactly blameless either. You walked in, said you were my sister and tried to put the bill on my tab. She thought you were using my name to get special treatment.”

I looked at him.

For the first time, I realised I didn’t know the brother I’d spent more than a decade raising at all.

“So what? Because I’m a woman, and because I don’t walk around with an entourage, she gets to assume I live off you? Just because everyone out there thinks you’re the Moretti heir?”

Luca frowned.

“Isa, do you have to put it like that?”

Just then, sirens sounded in the distance, and the room went quiet.

A few minutes later, Chicago police officers entered the living room. The lead detective swept his gaze across the room.

“Which one of you is Isabella Moretti?”

I raised my hand.

“I am.”

Luca stared at me, stunned, and didn’t move.

The detective took out a document.

“Vanessa Rich, you’re suspected of unlawful confinement, assault and extortion. You’ll need to come with us.”

Vanessa panicked instantly.

“What? No! This is all a misunderstanding!”

She grabbed Luca.

“Luca, tell them. Say something!”

Luca immediately stepped in front of her.

“Detective, this is a family matter. They had a row, that’s all. There’s no need to make it a police matter.”

The detective ignored him.

So did I.

Vanessa’s voice shook with panic.

“Luca! Didn’t you tell me no one in Chicago would dare touch me?”

The moment those words left her mouth, the living room grew even quieter.

I slowly turned to Luca.

“So that’s what you’ve been telling her.”