Love Crumbles on the Wedding Eve

---- Chapter 10 Both men fought so viciously that even the guards didn't know how to step in. Tt wasn't until I rushed forward and took Simone's punch that they finally stopped. He stammered, "Zoe! I'm sorry... I didn't mean to..." I forced myself to ignore the pain ripping through my back and ignored Simone. Instead, I walked over to Rosario, took out a silk handkerchief, and gently wiped the corner of his mouth. "We're about to get married. You can't afford to get disfigured. And this cut here... Will it hurt when we kiss tonight?" I asked.

Simone stared at the scene before him in disbelief, looking as if something inside him was about to shatter. He broke down in the next minute. Rosario placed a hand on the back of my head and kissed me in front of everyone. "No! Who gave you permission to touch her! Let her go! Let her go!" Simone screamed as he was restrained tightly by the guards. ---- The prideful man was now sobbing uncontrollably, like a child watching his favourite toy being taken away. After a while, Rosario finally pulled back.

He wiped the blood from his lip and said, "It does hurt a little." He then noticed the bruise forming on my back, and his eyes darkened. "Which hand did he use?" "The right," I replied. "Okay." Rosario pulled out a pistol and shot him without hesitation. Simone let out a blood-curdling scream as blood gushed out from his arm. In an instant, he lost his strength and crumpled to the ground. I watched indifferently as his face twisted in agony and despair, and then coldly looked away from his pleading gaze.

At that moment, Simone finally realized how the woman who once panicked more over his injuries than her own and once loved him wholeheartedly no longer cared about him now. He had lost her, and it was his own fault. In his haze, Simone closed his eyes in utter despair. ---- On the eve of my wedding, Papa called to inform me that Simone had been driven into bankruptcy. However, he still hadn't given up. He was desperately seeking investors and begging for funding. The once-proud man was now reduced to drinking with clients. Simone seemed to think that I left because of power and status.

But he'd forgotten how he had nothing when we'd first fallen in love. He even went bankrupt due to his failed startup and had to rely on me to get by. To pull him out of his slump, I took on every exhausting job he was now suffering through. Back then, I did it out of love. But once Simone succeeded, he thought my sacrifices were simply what I owed him. Papa laughed smugly on the other end of the call.

"Do you regret leaving the Salvatore famiglia, Zoe?" I chuckled and replied, "I don't." Even if I could do it all over again, I would make the same choice-all because I wanted to marry the person I loved. ---- Simone was my mistake. But after that, I found the greatest fortune of my life. Tended up marrying the man I truly loved after everything that had happened. The next day, Rosario got down on one knee beneath a sky full of exploding fireworks. He put the green ring I had waited three long years for on my finger.