Frozen Truth
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I am the wife of a mafia boss.
When a rival family raids our estate, I take the fatal bullets meant for my sister-in-law.
When my husband, Vittorio, arrives, I give him a weak, relieved smile.
Instead of helping me, he points the muzzle of his gun right between my eyes.
"The perimeter alarms didn't trip," his consigliere, Lorenzo, says. "Only an inside job. Boss, this marriage was a trap from day one."
I kneel on the floor, begging him to just look at the bullet wounds on my chest.
Vittorio just grinds his shoe into my broken collarbone.
"The docks. Smuggling freezer three. Let twenty below zero teach her some loyalty."
They drag me into that steel tomb reserved for traitors.
"Vittorio! I never betrayed you! I saved Bella!"
The life monitor beeps weakly, but he rips out the wire.
"Just static. Don't waste energy on a dead traitor."
By the time he learns the truth, I am nothing but a blue, frozen corpse curled up in the ice.
When a rival family raids our estate, I take the fatal bullets meant for my sister-in-law.
When my husband, Vittorio, arrives, I give him a weak, relieved smile.
Instead of helping me, he points the muzzle of his gun right between my eyes.
"The perimeter alarms didn't trip," his consigliere, Lorenzo, says. "Only an inside job. Boss, this marriage was a trap from day one."
I kneel on the floor, begging him to just look at the bullet wounds on my chest.
Vittorio just grinds his shoe into my broken collarbone.
"The docks. Smuggling freezer three. Let twenty below zero teach her some loyalty."
They drag me into that steel tomb reserved for traitors.
"Vittorio! I never betrayed you! I saved Bella!"
The life monitor beeps weakly, but he rips out the wire.
"Just static. Don't waste energy on a dead traitor."
By the time he learns the truth, I am nothing but a blue, frozen corpse curled up in the ice.







