Merry Christmas, Don Moretti
On Christmas Eve, I reserved the city’s most expensive revolving restaurant.
But she had no idea that the man sitting across from her—wearing a secondhand suit and too cheap to order wine—was the "worthless loser" her father said had squandered three billion.
"What kind of penniless trash dares to go on a blind date with me?" She flicked her manicured finger, tossing the menu into my face. "Don’t waste my time. Go back to being someone’s walking ATM."
I said nothing, just bent down to wipe invisible dust off my shoes.
Three days later, her father collapsed in a casino. The doctor said: sudden rage, cerebral hemorrhage.
The cause? A new technician from the maintenance crew had dismantled seventeen slot machines overnight—each found loaded with hidden coin-dispensing programs, the very core of her family’s money-laundering empire.
And that “technician” was now standing outside my office, sipping milk tea with a wrench in hand.
"Boss, all fixed," she winked. "Oh, and I ‘fixed’ the security footage too."
I nodded, handing her a director’s employment letter.
One week later, at the New Year’s gala in a glittering ballroom, she staggered toward me, drunk, pointing and laughing: "Look! That janitor still wears his uniform! He’ll never be fit for anything but a broom!"
The entire room erupted in laughter.
I set down my champagne, calmly shrugged off my jacket—revealing the black-and-gold tattoo on my cuff, a mark only top-tier members possessed.
Then, under the stunned silence spreading across every face, I spoke softly:
"You’re right."
"That’s why my son should never have called you Mom."
As the words fell, the entire building plunged into darkness.
When the lights returned, the giant screen flashed police wanted notices—her entire family, charged with transnational money laundering, illegal fundraising, and witness murder.
I took my secretary’s hand, stepped over scattered cash and broken glass, and walked away without looking back.
Behind me, her scream tore through the air: "Who the hell are you?!"
I paused, turned slightly, and smiled:
"Your father owes me a life."
"I borrowed your life to sleep soundly for three years."
"Now, with interest."
"The collector has arrived."