The Calm Before Ruin

My fiancée and I had been together for ten years. In everyone's eyes, we were the perfect couple. After she saved my life, with tears in my eyes, I made her a promise: "In this lifetime, I'll do 100 things for you." On the eve of our wedding, we decided to climb a snow-covered mountain. An unexpected avalanche struck, and we were stranded at a local farmhouse. Her first love, Ethan Carter, who was the expedition leader, was injured while trying to save her. In the confusion, he accidentally took an aphrodisiac instead of a painkiller. My fiancée, Yvette Jenkins, who had always seemed traditional and reserved, did not hesitate to choose him over me. Everyone expected me to explode in rage. Instead, I calmly stepped aside. Only three promises remained. Once they were fulfilled, Yvette and I would owe each other nothing. She thought I was a man who could never leave her. What she did not know was that I had abandoned wealth, power, and my identity as a mafia heir for her. When the hundredth promise was finally fulfilled, I walked away. And this time, I wasn't coming back as the man who loved her. I was returning to take my place at the head of my mafia family.