The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 269

Chapter 269

-LORETTA-

My father did not sit He stood at the head of the long table with both hands braced on the wood, and the room had gone so quiet I could hear the clock in the hall

My mother was in her chair Enzo was beside her, still in the clothes he had worn to football practice, the look on his face worse than anger

Chiara had her arms folded. Lucia was sixteen and trying not to look sixteen as she watched everyone’s

reaction to what I’d done

I stayed on my feet

“Say it again, my father said.

marned him.”

“Marco Vescari.”

“Yes.”

He shut his eyes. When he opened them, the anger had not moved. “You do not know what you have done.”

“I know that-”

“You know nothing.” His voice rose. “You married a Vescari! You gave him a claim on this house, on everything your grandfather spent his life trying to keep out of their hands. They already stole this family’s precious vineyard and now you want to give them more?”

He didn’t know that everything was written out in a contract. He had no clue that Marco had no rights to anything I owned. I also didn’t have any rights to his stuff.

Enzo leaned forward. “How could you?”

I looked at him. That was the part that hurt the must. Father’s fury I had expected. Enzo’s disappointment

made me sad.

“I love you,” he said. “You are my sister. I would stand in front of a bullet for you. But I am very disappointed in you. Vescari and Bellandi do not mix. Ever. You were raised on that. We all were. And now you are married to one. And you didn’t even think to tell anyone in your family about it.”

“I did not do it to spite this family.”

“Then why?” Chiara’s voice was sharp. She was eighteen and already had mama’s way of scolding. “How could you fall in love with a Vescari?”

“You can’t help who you fall in love with,” I told her even though I was definitely not in love with Marco

“That is not a reason to marry him, Enzo said. “You could have at least told me you’d fallen in love with someone I would have done all of the background checks for you Where did you even meet him?”

“Barcelona” I answered him “We were staying in the same hotel. I ran into him there”

“That is such a short time to fall in love with a man” My mother snapped. “I thought you two knew each other longer than that’

Oops Was I supposed to lie about our first meeting?

“What do you plan to tell Nonno? Enzo asked

The name echoed in the room. Nonno Alessandro My grandfather Eighty years old, still refusing to say Elena

Vescari’s name unless someone forced it out of him

I had sat at his kitchen table a hundred times while he told the story without telling all of it. The deed for the vineyard. The afternoon he was made a fool of in front of both families. The love story that turned sour

“I will tell him the truth, I said

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My father laughed once, without humor You will not get that far He will hear it from someone else before you finish the drive

Lorenzo Vescariis dead to this house, My mother said quietly. “His son is not meant to be in it either.”

Massimo did not marry me,” I said. “Marco did.”

Marco is Massimo’s eldest Enzo’s jaw was tight. “He is Lorenzo’s grandson. He is Elena’s great-nephew Do you understand what that means when Nonno hears it? They took what was never theirs and called it a gift. Elena broke Nonno’s heart, then stole what belonged to him. Now something that had Bellandi’s name all over it, belongs to the Vescari family

I was already familiar with the story and didn’t see the need to hear it again. Essentially, Elena and my grandfather had once been in love, however, something occurred that caused their breakup. The vineyard, which had been our family’s, was initially given to Elena by my grandfather when he believed she was his

soulmate

After she betrayed him, he demanded it back, sparking a bitter dispute The Vescaris family, particularly Lorenzo-Marco’s grandfather-fought vigorously to keep it for Elena’s sake. The situation became quite complicated and messy. Since the deed was already signed, it remained with Elena, and since then both families have kept their distance from each other

“And you forgot,” Enzo said “Or you decided it was old enough to ignore. It is not old. Nonno is still alive. He will not even have a Vescari bottle in the house. He will not be happy. Loretta

Chiara looked at me as if she were trying to help You have to undo it before anyone finds out.”

“Divorce him,” father said. “Tomorrow Quietly We will pay whatever must be paid. You will say it was an error in the paperwork. You will not see him again

“No.”

I was surprised by how quickly that no escaped me

My mother narrowed her eyes ‘Loretta

“I am not divorcing him.”

Enzo stared at me “You are not serious’

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