The Don’s 999 Roses Couldn’t Buy My Freedom

For eight years, Adriana Russo has been bound by a bloodline union to Lorenzo Falcone, the Don of the Falcone family. When nine hundred and ninety-nine roses arrive from him, she calls from the surgeon's table and calmly asks to be released. On the line, his young confidante Vittoria Bianchi tearfully takes the blame, and Lorenzo answers only that she may have what she wishes.

Half a month later, Lorenzo returns to the estate expecting a hot meal and hands Adriana a pink designer bag. She asks when he will bring the severance before the elders. He tells her to stop making a scene, then warns that Vittoria will be more of a mother to their son Matteo than she is. Adriana answers flatly that she lost the baby a month ago, the night he left to drink in Vittoria's place. He tells her she would make a terrible mother.

Once, Lorenzo was a lovesick heir who chased a street girl and begged her to stop getting hurt. Now Adriana walks out of the estate, and he never sees her again.