The Almighty Dominance

Chapter 382

Everyone carries some regret in life.

For Lucia, the regret went back twenty years-when she failed to stop her only daughter from giving her heart to a man with no honor, a poor peasant with nothing to his name.

"Maria," Lucia said, her voice sharp with authority.

"You must remember, we come from the family of the Governor of Vinland. You cannot marry a man with no identity, no honor."

"Mother!" Maria cried, tears streaming down her face.

"I don't care about titles or standing. I love him. And he loves me. Why can't we be together?"

Lucia's tone hardened. "You're still young. Love fades. Men like him cling to women like you only for power, only for position. He is using you!"

Maria's eyes flared with defiance.

"You adopted William as your son! He's the one you always praise, the perfect man in your eyes-and I'm nothing compared to him."

"Then give him the governor's seat! I don't want any of it. All I want is to be with the man I love."

"That is impossible!" Lucia thundered.

And so, in a moment that shook the household twenty years ago, Maria fled with her lover.

She vanished, beyond the reach of guards, trackers, or family influence. She was never found.

In her absence, Lucia and her husband Jose turned to William, grooming him to be the next governor.

Jose believed William would grow into a good governor, the kind of man he once pretended to be.

But Jose was wrong.

With Maria gone forever, William lost all restraint. Knowing the seat would one day be his, the darkness inside him finally clawed its way out-and there was no turning back.

Now, years later, Lucia's voice trembled as her eyes welled with tears. "Ten years ago, I found Maria's pendant on the sofa. Tell me, William... tell me what you did to her."

William laughed, cold and cruel. "Maria? Don't worry. I'll tell you everything-since you and Jose are about to die anyway."

He had already called the gangsters, men who owed him favors, to kill Jose. Even now, they were closing in.

the truth before the words left his

ago. While

meant she would inherit the governor's seat. Mine! She was nothing but

cracked, her body

his

was promised that position. And then she dared to come back?

grew venomous, every word

But it was already too late. She died staring at me in disbelief... and I made damn sure she

the other side, Jose caught the thunder of engines before the headlights cut

against gravel, and twenty armed

harsh glow of the party lights, their weapons gleamed, cold

crowd, a scar running

Alex, and Josephine standing

"Governor Jose," the gangster

the irony? Your own adopted son paid us

dollars to put you

And that's

us a

once he takes

rage. He had feared this

he had raised as his

now, here it was the nightmare come to

his pistol and leveling it at the

turned on him. The leader

old man, and twenty bullets tear through your chest. You can't win. But maybe I'll keep that fine woman for myself before

young man there-we'll kill you quick. William promised we'll be his

forward, standing between Jose and the guns. Her voice cracked like a

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you're doing? This is murder. You'

Lay

and you'll

her courage. For the first time that

his voice heavy with age and sorrow, "I've lived my years. You're still young. Don't

hands. "Take me, kill me