Chapter: TBCThe hospital room felt too small for all the fear packed inside it. Thirteen years had passed since that warm September afternoon in the garden when life felt perfect. Thirteen years of laughter, chaos, love, and building the family I once only dreamed about. Now everything was hanging by a thread. I hadn’t slept properly in days. My clothes smelled like antiseptic and stale coffee, but I refused to leave Ocean’s side. Not even for a minute. He lay in the bed, tubes and wires covering the strong body I had leaned on for so long. The Mafia king who once ruled with quiet power now looked exhausted and frail. The cancer had come out of nowhere and torn through him like wildfire. The doctors had been honest... it was only a matter of days unless something changed. Our children stood around the bed like silent guards. Storm, sixteen now, stood tall with his father’s jaw and my stubborn eyes. He hadn’t cried once. He kept clenching and unclenching his fists, like he could fight the ill
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Chapter: EPILOGUELola’s POV Storm is three now, and he’s decided the top of the garden wall is his new office. Not sitting on it like a normal kid... no, he’s standing up there, arms out for balance, chin set exactly like his dad’s when he’s made up his mind. I’m down in the garden, eyes darting around to make sure every adult in sight is watching this absolute legend in action. “Storm,” I call up. “Get down from there.” He looks at me, makes that little grunt he does when he’s thinking. “That wasn’t a request, buddy.” He considers it for a second, then plops down on his bum instead of standing. Total compromise. He shoots me this proud little grin like he’s just negotiated world peace. He’s got Ocean’s face, my stubborn streak, and Hannah’s wicked sense of humor. We knew he’d be a handful. We were right. “Down,” I say again, firmer this time. He swings his legs over and drops straight into Ezra’s waiting arms on the other side. Of course Ezra was there. Of course Storm knew it. We all play al
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Chapter: RAINLola's POV Rain arrived on a Sunday in December. Not early this time, not in some hidden cottage with gunfire popping outside and Hannah gripping my hand through every contraction while we waited for a doctor who was an hour away. Not scared out of my mind and not alone. This time Ocean was right there from the very first one. I woke him at four in the morning, just touched his shoulder and whispered that it was time. He was up before I even finished the sentence, wide awake like he'd been waiting for it. No groggy transition. Just instantly there. "How far apart?" he asked. "Twelve minutes." "Pain level?" "Manageable, it's still early." He nodded, got dressed fast, made the calls to Garrett and Hannah. All of it done in under ten minutes with that sharp focus of a man who'd been through this once and wasn't about to waste time figuring it out again. I stood in the bathroom, hands on the counter, watching my face in the mirror while another contraction rolled through me. I b
최신 업데이트: 2026-07-07
Chapter: PROPOSAL AND WEDDINGLola's POV Ocean proposes on a Tuesday evening in September. Not on one knee. Not with a prepared speech or some elaborate production like the stories you hear. He does it the way he does everything that actually matters. Directly. Without ceremony. In the kitchen after dinner, while Storm is asleep upstairs and the house has settled into that deep, comfortable quiet. I’m washing dishes and he’s drying them, the rhythm we fell into months ago without ever talking about it. He sets down the plate he’s been drying. "Marry me again," he says. I turn to look at him. He’s leaning against the counter, arms folded, wearing that steady expression he gets when he’s said something he means completely and is waiting to see what I’ll do with it. "We’re already married," I say. "I know." "Ocean..." "That ceremony was twelve people in a room and vows that only meant I will keep you alive and nothing else." He holds my gaze. "I want to do it right this time. Properly. With the people who m
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Chapter: RAINLola's POV I find out on a Thursday morning in July. Storm is fast asleep for his nap, and the house has slipped into that particular kind of quiet it only gets during these stolen hours. Everything holds its breath. I can actually hear the low hum of the fridge and the faint creak of the floorboards settling, and I remember what silence feels like without a six-month-old attached to my hip. Usually I use this time to race through the million little tasks that get impossible once he’s awake. Today I do something different. I’ve been ignoring the signs for two full weeks. Not on purpose, or maybe it was on purpose. There is this specific way of ignoring something where you know exactly what you’re doing. You’ve made a quiet, private decision to keep shoving it aside until the moment comes when you can’t anymore. That’s exactly where I’ve been living for two weeks. The bone-deep tiredness I blamed on Storm’s sleep regression. The nausea I told myself came from something I ate. Tha
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Chapter: VARIOUS SCENESSophia I fell head over heels for Storm Moretti on a Wednesday afternoon in March. Not the polite, fake kind of love adults do when they’re supposed to find a baby cute. The real deal. The sudden, goofy, can’t-help-it kind that hits you out of nowhere. He was four months old the first time I properly held him. Lola brought him over to the Romano estate for lunch. Just the two of them, like the old days when she used to stay with us. But everything felt different now. She carried herself differently. Walked through rooms like she owned the ground under her feet. That old wariness she used to have was gone, replaced by this calm confidence of a woman who finally knows where she stands. She put Storm in my arms. He looked at me real serious, like he was sizing me up. Then he made this little sound. I glanced at Lola. “What does that mean?” “Approval, I think,” she said. “Probably.” “He’s got a whole bunch of sounds. I’m still learning what they all mean.” I looked back at Stor
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Chapter: JAKE'S SCHOOLThe morning after that wild night with the twins, my body felt like it had been through something serious. Every little move reminded me of them. A dull ache between my legs. Finger-shaped bruises on my hips. A small hickey on my collarbone that I covered with a loose hoodie before heading to the kitchen. The bond was still there in the background, quiet and warm for now, like a low hum under my skin. But I kept some walls up. I had to. I couldn’t let myself get lost in how good it felt with them. Not when there was still so much I needed to do.Maria was already busy at the stove, flipping eggs and humming that same old song she liked. The smell of coffee and breakfast filled the kitchen. I poured myself a big mug and sat at the counter, trying to act like any other normal day.My phone buzzed on the counter. Mom.I picked it up quick, heart beating a little faster. “Hey Mom, what’s up?”Her voice was trying to sound okay, but I could hear the worry underneath. “Hi
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Chapter: DOUBLE BONDI was in the library when it hit me.One second I was standing by the shelves, pretending to look for a book that would take my mind off yesterday with Nico. The next, it felt like the floor dropped out from under me. Not pain. Not exactly. It was them. Both of them. At the same time.Nico’s frequency slammed into me first, dark and intense, like thunder rolling through my veins. Then Matteo’s came right after it, steadier but just as strong, like a deep bass line that made my bones hum. They layered together, twisting and overlapping, and suddenly I could feel everything. Nico’s frustration from some meeting across town. Matteo’s focus while he was working out in the gym. Their emotions, their wants, their need for me all crashing together inside my chest.It was too much.My knees buckled. I grabbed the back of a chair and sank down hard, breathing fast. My skin felt too hot, too tight. Between my legs I was already wet, aching, like their frequencies had reached i
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Chapter: ALMOST FORGOTI didn’t expect Nico to show up in the doorway of the living room that morning with that look on his face. The one that wasn’t all sharp edges and control. He leaned against the frame, hands in his pockets, watching me like he was trying to figure something out. “Come with me today,” he said. No orders. No “we have a meeting” or “wear something nice for the clients.” Just that. Come with me. I looked up from the book I wasn’t really reading. “Where?” “Doesn’t matter. Just us, no business and no performance.” I almost laughed. Nico saying something like that felt weird, like hearing a wolf ask for a quiet walk in the park. But I’d been letting him do this more and more lately. Little trips, little escapes. We both knew why, even if we never said it out loud. I needed him closer for my plan. He needed... something from me that wasn’t just the heat between us. Something quieter. Neither of us was being fully honest about it. “Okay,” I said, closing the book. “Let me grab a jacket.”
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Chapter: A BLADEI didn’t cry. Not after Matteo’s words landed heavy in my chest like a bunch of stones. Not when I slipped out of the library and started walking those long, fancy hallways in the penthouse, hugging my arms tight around myself like I was holding all my broken pieces together. Not when I stopped at those huge floor-to-ceiling windows and just stared out at the sparkling city lights... the same city that basically belonged to the man who had my father killed. Nope. I didn’t cry at all. I just walked. The penthouse felt extra quiet that afternoon, almost too still. Nico was off handling meetings across town, doing whatever big boss stuff he did. Matteo had gone straight to the gym after our heavy talk, giving me space without me even having to ask for it. Maria was busy in the kitchen, humming some old familiar song while she chopped vegetables or stirred something that smelled pretty damn good. I moved through all the rooms like a ghost in my own life, bare feet making almost no sou
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Chapter: THE BONDThe bond shifted again on a quiet Saturday morning when I wasn’t expecting it. I was in the living room alone, curled up on the wide sectional with a book I’d been pretending to read for twenty minutes. Sunlight poured through the tall windows, warming the floorboards and catching dust motes in the air. Nico was in his office down the hall handling some calls. Matteo had gone out for a run but said he’d be back soon. The penthouse felt peacefully empty in that rare way it sometimes did. Then it hit. At first it was just a faint pressure behind my eyes, like the start of a headache that wasn’t quite a headache. I set the book down and rubbed my temples. The bond had been growing stronger for weeks, but this felt different. Deeper. Wider. Like something stretching open that had been waiting for the right moment. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe through it. That’s when it happened. Nico’s presence came through first... cool, steady, the familiar anchor I’d come to recognize li
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Chapter: Completely HonestNico took me out on a Thursday afternoon with no warning and no agenda attached. At least none he admitted to. He’d been doing this more often lately... pulling me away from the penthouse for things that had nothing to do with business or appearances. A quiet drive, a bookstore he liked. Once, just coffee on a random rooftop terrace that overlooked nothing special. I let him. We both knew I was letting him, and we both knew neither of us was being completely honest about why. This time he didn’t tell me where we were going. He just met me in the foyer after I changed, handed me one of my lighter jackets, and guided me down to the car. Matteo was out handling something else. Maria had the day off. It felt deliberate, this pocket of time carved out for just us. The drive took us out of the city. Not far, maybe forty minutes along roads that grew quieter and greener. Nico didn’t fill the silence with talk about deals or family obligations. He kept one hand on the wheel and the other r
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