My Second Marriage with the Mafia Kingpin novel Chapter 514

Chapter 514: Goodbye, Marshal.

"Will you shoot your own daughter?"

A pin-drop silence descended over the area, Marshal’s voice echoing through it.

Deep frowns appeared on the faces around him. Even Carmella turned toward her husband in shock.

"Honey... what are you talking about?" she asked quietly, yet everyone heard her.

Ashley glanced at Carmella’s reaction and immediately knew that the woman had no idea what was going on.

It wasn’t surprising.

Carmella’s treatment of Ashley had always stemmed from her inability to accept that her husband had allowed his mistress’s child to live. It wasn’t as though Carmella didn’t know about Marshal’s appetite for younger women. She simply looked the other way, believing that as long as Marshal never brought another woman or child home, she could pretend she knew nothing.

And knowing Marshal, he had deliberately hidden the truth from his wife to ensure that the child he brought home would suffer.

Julio glanced at Tommy. "Tommy, what’s going on?"

Tommy didn’t answer. He merely stared at Marshal before shifting his gaze toward Ashley.

His hands curled into tight fists as his chest rose and fell heavily. A vein bulged on his forehead at the mention of the child he had lost.

"Even now, you’re still going to use my child?" Tommy’s voice dropped, the authority in it sending a chill down everyone’s spine.

The expressions of his men darkened, their fingers ready on the triggers.

"You still haven’t grown a spine after all these years," Tommy added under his breath. "Why am I surprised?"

Ashley, meanwhile, hung her head, her face shrouded in shadow. Lucian kept his eyes on her, but he couldn’t tell what kind of expression she was making.

If only he knew that she was making no expression at all.

Ashley stared at the ground, her mind and heart eerily quiet. She already knew that Marshal wasn’t her father, and she had been looking forward to the end of this mission so she could finally see the results of the test Lucian had ordered.

But this?

Hearing it from Marshal himself?

Ashley didn’t know what to think. She didn’t even know what she was supposed to feel. However, when she lifted her gaze, her heart stopped for a second at the sight of Tommy.

Tommy was staring at her—and only her.

She couldn’t tell what was going through his mind.

Was it anger? Disappointment? Hope?

And yet, somehow, her lips began to quiver. She bit down hard, her throat tightening as she stared back at him.

Why... she wondered. Why do I want him to save me?

"Daughter?" several of Tommy’s men whispered, exchanging confused looks.

However, no one had an answer.

Julio’s gaze darted between Marshal, Tommy, and Ashley.

He hadn’t known Ashley for long. In fact, he hadn’t even met her before tonight. However, he had heard about her while investigating Dominion and the Di Carpios, back when he believed they might have been involved in Tommy’s shooting.

Thus, he had heard plenty of rumors.

But believing rumors had never been wise, especially when they painted two completely different versions of Ashley.

One depicted her as the spoiled and rebellious daughter of the Di Carpios—a young woman drowning in her own insecurities, which often drove her to hurt the family’s legitimate daughter.

The other claimed that calling her a Di Carpio was unjustified.

Why?

Because even the household maids had been treated better than the Di Carpios’ bastard child.

If the latter was true...

Julio shook his head, clearing his thoughts and reminding himself not to jump to conclusions.

"Tom," he called, casting Tommy a brief sidelong glance. "Don’t fall for it. You know Marshal and his tricks."

Marshal chuckled. "Ah, Julio. You bastard. You really haven’t changed, have you?"

Julio’s expression hardened.

"Did you honestly think I simply had that child killed?" Marshal laughed. "Where’s the fun in that? After everything this damned bastard put me through, I couldn’t simply let him grieve and move on."

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