THE MOMENT HE LOST EVERYTHING
The phone buzzed on the marble nightstand like a small, desperate insect.
Elena calling…
Marco glanced at the screen for a heartbeat—too long for a mafia boss, too short for a wife who needed him—and then turned it facedown.
The woman in his arms let out a soft laugh.
“She’s calling again.”
“It’s nothing,” Marco murmured, leaning back into the kiss.
And that single, careless movement—ignoring the call—was the moment his entire world collapsed.
1. The Last Call
At their oceanfront home, Elena curled up on the couch. Outside, the wind slammed against the windows like it was trying to warn her.
Three hours. Marco still wasn’t home.
She had learned not to call him—learned to swallow her questions, her loneliness, her dignity.
But tonight was different.
Something was wrong.
A cold numbness spread through her abdomen, sharp and unfamiliar. She pressed a hand against her stomach.
She called Marco.
One ring. Two rings. Three.
He didn’t answer.
She set the phone down, breath shaking. A strange heaviness slid into her chest, as if her body knew the truth before her mind did.
Then the pain hit—violent, tearing, merciless.
Warm blood pooled beneath her.
Elena gasped and tried to stand, but her knees buckled. She reached blindly for her phone again, her fingers slick with red.
She called again.
Still unanswered.
She texted, barely able to see the screen:
“Marco… I need you… I’m scared…”
Sent.
Not seen.
A wave of dizziness crashed over her.
She didn’t make it to the door before darkness swallowed her.
2. Marco — the Man Who Thought He Couldn’t Lose
Marco was the kind of man who walked into a room and bent the world to his will.
Men feared him.
Women adored him.
Power was his oxygen.
But Elena… Elena had loved him before all of that—when he was just a poor boy sitting with her on the beach, promising:
“One day, I’ll give you everything. And you’ll be the only one I protect.”
Sometimes Marco hated remembering who he had been.
That boy was soft. Vulnerable.
That boy believed love mattered more than power.
And Elena was the last fragment of that old self.
So he ignored her.
Pushed her away.
Convinced himself she would always be there, gentle and patient, no matter what he did.
He never imagined silence could kill.
3. Elena — the Last Believer
Elena knew he was cheating. She wasn’t naive.
She knew where he went, who he touched, how far he had drifted.
But she still believed…
that if she ever truly needed him, if something was wrong, he would come.
She was wrong.
When the blood soaked her dress and the room tilted sideways, Elena clawed her way across the floor. She tried calling out for help. For anyone.
But the house was too big.
Her body was too weak.
She reached for the doorknob—
her vision blurred—
and collapsed before her fingers touched it.
4. The Call He Finally Answered
At 2 a.m., Marco left the hotel.
He checked his phone.
Twelve missed calls from Elena.
He sighed. “Always dramatic…”
But then he saw the text.
“Marco… I need you…”
His blood ran cold.
He called her back.
Once.
Twice.
Three times.
No answer.
For the first time in years, fear squeezed his throat.
Marco sped through the empty streets like a madman.
He had seen death many times, caused it countless times—but nothing had ever terrified him like the thought of losing Elena.
5. The House of Silence
He unlocked the front door.
The smell of iron hit him first.
Then he saw it.
A smear of blood across the tile floor.
A motionless body in the pale moonlight.
“Elena?!”
Marco dropped to his knees, gathering her in his arms. Her skin was ice cold.
Neighbors rushed in, calling an ambulance.
Marco carried her to the car himself. His hands shook. His shirt soaked with her blood. He kept whispering:
“Stay with me… stay with me…”
But Elena was already far away.
6. The Doctor’s Words
Marco waited outside the emergency room, covered in her blood, staring at his shaking hands.
A doctor finally stepped out, eyes heavy.
“We did everything we could.”
Marco’s jaw locked.
“She suffered a severe miscarriage,” the doctor continued quietly. “Likely caused by stress and… shock. She tried to call you before she collapsed. If she had arrived earlier, we might’ve had a chance.”
Marco froze.
“Miscarriage?”
“She was almost three months pregnant.
She hadn’t told you?”
His heart shattered.
Elena had called him because she was trying to protect their baby.
And he had ignored her.
7. Marco After the Funeral
At the wake, Marco didn’t cry.
He didn’t speak.
He just sat beside her casket all night, staring at the woman he had destroyed.
The once-fearsome mafia king was gone.
He opened her phone.
Read her final text.
Then saw the message she never had a chance to show him:
A photo of a positive pregnancy test.
“I’m scared you won’t be happy…
but I’m so excited.
I think… we’ll be okay this time.”
Marco collapsed to the floor.
“Forgive me… Elena… please…”
But the dead cannot forgive.
8. One Year Later
Marco disappeared from the criminal world.
Rumors spread.
Some said he went insane.
Some said he retired.
No one knew the truth:
He spent every night in the house by the sea, surrounded by silence and ghosts.
The balcony bloomed with white roses—her favorite.
He replayed her messages every evening.
Read her last text every dawn.
He lived his life in a loop of regret.
9. But the Past Wasn’t Done With Him
One night, a package arrived.
Inside was a stack of photos.
Photos of Elena on the floor.
Photos of the blood.
Photos of the exact moment she fell.
Someone had been watching.
The last picture had one sentence:
“That night wasn’t an accident.”
Marco stared at the photos for a long time.
Then he stood up slowly… and the cold rage of a mafia king returned to his eyes.
This time, he wasn’t killing for power.
He was killing for Elena.
And for the child he never met.
10. They Say…
People still whisper about the mafia boss who lost everything with one missed call.
About the wife who bled alone.
About the baby he didn’t know existed.
And about the moment he chose a lover’s kiss over the woman who would’ve died for him.
But Marco knows the truth better than anyone:
He didn’t lose Elena the night she died.
He lost her the moment he turned his phone facedown.
