The Paraplegic Mafia Boss Was Abandoned at His Own Wedding — The Humble Maid Said: “Shall We Dance?”
There were 350 people in the garden of Rosewood Estate: senators, CEOs, Wall Street sharks. And at the center of it all, the man who once made New York tremble sat still… in a wheelchair, waiting for his bride.
Sebastian Corsetti. The boss who had sworn to leave violence behind, the billionaire who survived a bullet to the spine three years earlier. They took his legs, but they couldn’t take his empire.
Today was supposed to be perfect.
But she didn’t show up.
Thirty minutes. An hour. Two.
The murmurs spread like wildfire through the white roses.
“Poor man…” someone whispered. “Money can’t buy legs.”
“Who would want to be tied to that forever?”
Sebastian heard it all. Every word. Every poison disguised as compassion. He gripped the armrests until his knuckles turned white, as if he could hold the world together so it wouldn’t shatter in front of him.
And then, the message arrived.
Thomas, his most loyal bodyguard, stepped forward, his face pale and a phone trembling in his hand.
Sebastian read.
“I’m sorry. I can’t. I’m at the airport with Lorenzo.”
Lorenzo Valente.
The man he believed to be his enemy.
“He can give me what you can’t: a whole man. A future without a wheelchair. I’m tired… and Lorenzo says hello. He says that bullet should have gone through your heart.”
The air vanished from his chest. He read it again, over and over, as if the letters might change if he stared at them long enough.
They didn’t change.
Someone opened the attached audio file.
Lorenzo’s laughter erupted throughout the garden—loud, triumphant, cruel.
“Hey, Corsetti… Victoria is right here next to me. She says he rides better than your chair ever could. Congratulations on the wedding, cripple.”
There were chuckles. Phones were raised. 350 faces watched as if they were witnessing a slow execution.
Sebastian went rigid. He survived the bullet. He survived the chair. But this humiliation… it was breaking something inside him.
A tear—the first in twenty years—rolled down his cheek.
And just then, from the kitchen door, a figure appeared. She wore no dress. She wore no jewels. Only a simple black uniform.
She walked toward him through the stares and the whispers.
And she knelt before the most powerful man in New York.
To be continued in the comments…
