A homeless young woman was forced to marry a mafia boss who had been in a coma for three months; but right in the middle of the wedding, something happened that made everyone present freeze in absolute horror šØ
Sofia had been living on the streets for almost a year. Once, she had a small apartment, a job at a cafƩ, and an ordinary life, but after her mother died, she was left with enormous debts. Her landlord quickly threw her out, and finding a normal job without documents or a permanent address proved almost impossible.
She slept wherever she could, sometimes helped at the market in exchange for food, and tried not to tell anyone about her past life.
One evening, an expensive black car stopped beside her.
Two men in suits stepped out and asked Sofia to come with them. The young woman became frightened and refused, but one of the men calmly said:
ā Youāll be paid so much that youāll never end up on the streets again.
An hour later, Sofia was sitting in a huge mansion across from a man named Victor. It was there that she first heard the name Adrian Moretti.
Almost everyone in the city knew him. Adrian owned dozens of companies, restaurants, and construction firms, but people said that the true source of his power lay somewhere else entirely. Even those who had never met him were afraid of him.
Three months earlier, Adrian had been involved in a serious accident. The doctors saved his life, but ever since then, he had remained in a coma.
His family had moved him from the hospital back home and turned one of the rooms into a fully equipped hospital room. The best doctors monitored him around the clock, but there had been no improvement.
And now Sofia was being offered the chance to become his wife.
At first, she thought it was some kind of insane joke, but Victor placed several documents in front of her. According to the terms of the family trust, a large portion of Adrianās fortune could come under his wifeās control. His relatives needed someone they could easily manipulate.
Sofia was perfect. She had no family, no money, and no one who would start asking questions.
They promised her an apartment, a large sum of money, and a new life. All she had to do was sign the documents and spend several months pretending to be the wife of a man who, according to the doctors, might never wake up.
Sofia refused for a long time, but they made it clear that she practically had no choice.
A few days later, they were already preparing her for the wedding.
They decided to hold the ceremony right inside the mansion. The enormous hall was decorated with white roses and candles, and only Adrianās closest relatives and associates were invited.
In the middle of all that luxury stood a hospital bed. The groom was lying on it.
Adrian was dressed in a black tuxedo and a white shirt. His face was covered by a transparent oxygen mask, medical equipment operated beside him, and thin wires disappeared beneath his clothes.
Sofia felt uneasy when she approached him for the first time.
He didnāt look like someone who couldnāt feel anything. It seemed as though Adrian was simply asleep and could open his eyes at any moment.
The ceremony began.
Adrianās relatives, assistants, and several men Sofia had previously seen only in newspaper photographs stood around the bed.
She noticed that almost no one looked at the groom with sympathy. Quite the opposite. Some of them seemed far too calm. Especially Victor.
When the time came to give her consent, Sofia quietly said:
ā Yes.
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After that, Adrianās assistant was supposed to put the wedding ring on his finger.
But the moment the man touched his hand, the monitor beside the bed began beeping rapidly.
The doctor quickly stepped closer. The guests fell silent.
Adrianās hand slowly lifted.
He took the ring himself.
One of the women screamed.
Victor turned pale and took a step backward.
Then Adrian opened his eyes.
For several seconds, he simply stared at the ceiling, as if trying to adjust to the light. Then he slowly turned his head toward Sofia.
No one in the room moved.
The doctor tried to approach him, but Adrian raised his hand to stop him. Then he removed the oxygen mask himself.
ā Continue the ceremony, ā he said hoarsely.
Sofia couldnāt believe what was happening.
But the real shock was still to come.
When the ceremony ended, Adrian asked for the doors to be closed.
He slowly sat up in bed and looked at the people who, only minutes earlier, had been discussing his condition as though he were nothing more than an object.
ā I heard almost everything, ā he said.
It turned out that Adrian had regained consciousness several weeks earlier.
At first, he truly couldnāt move or speak, but gradually his condition had improved. Only his personal doctor and one bodyguard knew about it.
Adrian had ordered them to remain silent.
He suspected that the accident hadnāt been an accident at all, but he didnāt know which of his own people he could trust. So he decided to continue pretending to be in a coma.
For weeks, people came to his bedside and talked around him, convinced that he couldnāt hear anything.
Adrian learned far more than he had expected.
He heard Victor discussing his money, his relatives arguing over his companies, and several of his closest associates planning how they would divide his fortune among themselves.
And then Sofia appeared.
Adrian heard her too.
He heard how, on the night before the wedding, she sat beside his bed and quietly said that she felt sorry for him. She even promised that after receiving the money, she wouldnāt allow his family to simply get rid of him and would try to find good doctors to help him.
She was the only person in the house who wanted nothing from him except the freedom she had been promised.
Adrian looked at Victor.
ā You wanted to find me a wife you could control. In the end, you were the one who brought me the only person I can trust.
That same evening, several people left the mansion forever, and the investigation into Adrianās accident was reopened.
Sofia received the money she had been promised and was free to leave.
Adrian didnāt try to stop her.
But a few days later, she unexpectedly returned.
Not for his fortune and not for the Moretti name.
She brought him some belongings from the hospital and said she first wanted to make sure that he would truly recover.
A year later, they held another wedding.
