Dangerous Secrets: My Mafia Stepbrother

In the hospital room, Isabella and Emanuele were having a meal when Isabella heard Karen’s voice. She immediately looked at Emanuele and said, “Karen is here to see you. It seems like she really likes you.”

Isabella smiled as she spoke, but Emanuele sensed a hint of sarcasm in her tone.

Thinking about how he had been relying on Karen for care these past few days, although he had only wanted to play with her emotions and make her lose interest in him, from Isabella’s perspective, it must have been uncomfortable as well.

With this in mind, Emanuele got ready to get up and told Isabella, “Leave it to me.”

To his surprise, Isabella stopped him.

“I’ll go. You just focus on your meal,” Isabella said, getting up to open the door.

Karen was waiting for the door to open, ready to confide in Emanuele. To her surprise, when the door opened, it was Isabella standing there.

“Why is it you? How come you’re at the hospital?” Karen, seeing Isabella, became instantly angry.NôvelDrama.Org copyrighted © content.

Didn’t Emanuele tell Isabella not to come? How come Isabella was at the hospital now? And from Isabella’s expression, it didn’t seem like she was upset. Had she made amends with Emanuele?

Does that mean Isabella has told Emanuele about what happened at the mall today?

In that instant, many thoughts flooded Karen’s mind.

“I am Emanuele’s wife. Shouldn’t I be here?” Seeing the panic in Karen’s eyes, Isabella remained extremely composed.

“No, didn’t you two have a fight?”

“Thank you. If it weren’t for your scene at the mall today, Emanuele and I wouldn’t have reconciled. Karen, did you come to visit Emanuele?”

“I… I…” Karen felt extremely nervous.

Heavens, she didn’t come to visit Emanuele. She came to badmouth Isabella to Emanuele. But now that Isabella was here, she didn’t know what to say.

“So you came here to tell Emanuele about what happened at the mall today, right?” Isabella asked.

Karen was so frightened that she stopped breathing.

Isabella was so clever; she had actually guessed what Karen was up to!

“No, Isabella, you’re mistaken. I’m also hospitalized, and Emanuele hasn’t come to visit me. I thought something had happened to him, so I came to check on him.” Karen forced herself to finish speaking, fighting the urge to cry.

No, Karen, you must be strong; you mustn’t cry in front of the enemy.

“Oh, I see. Since Emanuele and I haven’t been getting along for a long time, he doesn’t want to be disturbed. Karen, are you feeling better? Why is your face so heavily made up?”

“It’s nothing, I’m fine. I’ll leave now.” Karen said, immediately turning to leave.

She felt extremely embarrassed and didn’t want to stay here for another second.

It made her feel like a monkey, being played with so easily.

Isabella watched Karen leave and couldn’t help but smile. She wasn’t a very malicious person; she had been quite kind to Karen. It’s just that Karen kept challenging and bullying her. She wasn’t someone who could be easily bullied.

Turning to Emanuele, she said, “By treating Karen this way, you’re not angry, are you?”

Emanuele immediately said, “No, no, no, I hope you’ll deal with Karen even more effectively. You know, I just want her to give up on me. I hope this time, Karen will give up on me.”

After Karen left, crying, she returned to the hospital room.

She wiped off the blush from her face.

Why? Why was Isabella so clever, able to see at a glance that the marks on her face were makeup? But considering Isabella’s previous profession as a doctor, it was normal that she couldn’t be fooled by this disguise.

However, Karen was still very unwilling.

Isabella was bullying her like this, and no one was helping her. So people looked at her as if she were a clown.

Karen cried heavily in the hospital room.

She was extremely disappointed in Emanuele.

During this time, she had always been taking care of Emanuele, but Emanuele had been so heartless. After Isabella appeared, he just kicked her away.

Karen had never experienced such humiliation and felt exhausted. She didn’t want to go through this anymore.

Thinking of this, Karen couldn’t help but call Michael.

“Brother, I’m tired. Can you pick me up and take me away from Chicago? I don’t want to stay here anymore.”

Hearing Karen crying, Michael also felt distressed.

“Karen, are you okay? Don’t be sad.”

“I’m fine. I don’t like Emanuele anymore.”

Michael breathed a sigh of relief, but he restrained his laughter. “Good, Emanuele isn’t good for you. By the way, isn’t Dad’s birthday coming up? I’ll be hosting a grand birthday party, inviting many people, especially handsome men. You won’t be able to choose among them.”

“Okay, brother, I’ll listen to you this time.”

In their family, she was the most cherished princess, but in Chicago, she had nothing and was only bullied, bearing many scars.

Karen thought she wanted to leave Chicago as soon as possible and never come back.

Michael arrived in Chicago on the third day.

Before meeting Karen, he first found Emanuele.

“Emanuele, thank you. Thank you for being so decisive and ending Karen’s feelings for you,” Michael thought, although Emanuele had hurt Karen, it was better for Karen to be hurt this once than to be hurt for the rest of her life.

“You’re welcome,” Emanuele said.

“How’s your leg injury?” Michael asked, looking at Emanuele with concern.

“It’s okay. I feel better walking these past few days. I believe that with some more rest, I’ll be back to normal.”

“That’s good.”

After chatting with Emanuele, he looked at Isabella.

Isabella also looked at him, remembering that she had slapped Karen and wondering if Michael would be angry with her.

“Isabella, thank you,” Michael said to Isabella. “Karen is so childish, always offending you. I hope you won’t lower yourself to her level.”

“I won’t. I even slapped her last time. I hope you won’t hold it against me.”

“No, no, no. You did the right thing. If I were you, I wouldn’t have stopped at just one slap.” Michael said.

Michael exchanged a few more pleasantries and then went to find Karen.

He was going to take Karen home.

And it was clear that Karen had given up on Emanuele. Before leaving, she didn’t even say goodbye to him.

She hadn’t completely let go of Emanuele, but she had let go mostly. She believed that time would help her forget everything.

Emanuele’s leg injury was slowly healing.

Isabella had been by his side, helping him walk downstairs.