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A Promise Drowned in Silence Chapter 9
Five more days.Forty since Arianna vanished.Orlando had turned every city block upside down. Nothing. No trace.His eyes were bloodshot, his jaw covered in stubble, his face drawn and hollow.Right when despair was about to eat him alive, his secretary got a call—from some hospice way out on the coast."Is this Orlando Leone? We have a patient, Arianna Alfano. Critical condition. She gave us a bracelet with your name on it."Orlando's heart straight-up stopped. "The address," he snapped. "Give it to me. Now."The hospice sat by the sea, just outside the grid he'd scoured to death.He hung up and floored it, white-knuckling the wheel like that could somehow hold her together.'Aria, please... just hang on. Not yet.'But when he crashed into the hospital room, hope died fast. Arianna was already gone.Her skin was pale, the kind of pale that didn't come back. Tubes everywhere. The heart monitor was a flatline of silence."Doctor! Doctor!" Orlando grabbed a nurse. "She's ali
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Orlando had never tasted desperation like this. But losing Arianna forever? That was real fear.He mobilized the entire family—every street, every contact, every whisper in the city. Find her. No excuses.Day one: silence.Day two: nothing.She was gone. Like smoke.He didn't go home. Just crashed on the floor of her empty room, clinging to her letter like it was life support.He kept seeing her smile. The way she talked about sunflowers, how she wanted a house wrapped in them when they were old.Now? He didn't even know if she was alive.***Eventually, duty dragged him back.Soon as he stepped inside, he saw them. Caterina and Bianca, sipping tea like nothing happened. They froze. He looked wrecked—half-alive, barely holding it together."Who let her out?" His eyes locked on Bianca."Orlando, what are you talking about? She's pregnant with your child!" Caterina snapped. "You locked her up? Look at yourself—you don't even look like a Don anymore!""Madre. Where's Arianna?
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Another memory hit him like a gut punch.Bianca had once told him Caterina had a heart attack. He'd panicked, ditched Arianna alone on some seaside island, and rushed home—only to find Caterina and Bianca casually sipping afternoon tea.Caterina barely looked up. "Bianca overreacted. I was just a little dizzy, nothing serious."He hadn't questioned it.Worse, that same night, he let Bianca stay with him. In Arianna's favorite garden.He dropped to the floor, hollow. How many times had he screwed up?The lies. The setups. And Arianna—how much pain had she swallowed in silence?He, the guy who swore he loved her, had eaten up every lie. And each one shoved Arianna further into hell.The idea that she might really be gone? He couldn't breathe.Orlando tore out of the house and hit the road, speeding north toward the old estate.Highway lights streaked past like ghosts as his mind flooded with her.He was seven again. Just some scrawny, overlooked kid no one in the family took s
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'How? Just—how?'His hands shook. The date on the report—one day before he shipped her off to the old estate."No... no, this can't be..."He shoved everything off the desk, papers flying everywhere as he spiraled.Flashes hit him, one after the other.She couldn't eat. Barely touched her soup before setting the spoon down.He'd rolled his eyes. Teased her. "You're a grown woman. What game are you playing now?"She curled up at night, clutching her stomach, drenched in sweat.He brushed it off. Said she was faking to keep him from seeing Bianca.Even when she'd fallen into the water, pale and shaking, too weak to speak—He chalked it up to guilt.Then sent her away. No doctor. No check-up. Just exile.What the hell had he done?Every memory hit like a blade, slicing through him, leaving him choking on guilt.Bianca waltzed in wearing Arianna's silk nightgown.She carried a cup of warm milk.Orlando didn't even blink.The same guy who used to panic when she so much as s
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The estate was even more dead than I remembered.Withered vines clawed up the cracked walls. Weeds reached my knees.I stared out at the sea in the distance—calm, uncaring—then stepped through the rusted gate.I cleaned up one room, lit the fireplace, and dried my soaked clothes.The burning in my stomach still wouldn't quit. Felt like ants were eating me alive from the inside.I popped two painkillers.Everything blurred. My mind drifted—back to when I was eighteen.Orlando had been ambushed in some back alley. I didn't even think. Just stepped in front of him.The bullet ripped through me. I still remembered the way he screamed.I'd used every connection my father had—politics, business—just to clear the path for Orlando to become Don.Dad had lost it. Threatened to cut me off.But I just smiled and told Orlando, 'It's fine. Having you is enough.'And now?I had nothing.My hands shook as I pulled out a pen and paper from my suitcase. Under the weak light, I wrote each
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I walked out to the rose garden behind the manor—slow, quiet. Orlando and I had planted every one of those flowers ourselves.Even the swing? We built that too.I just wanted to see the unopened buds one last time.But then I saw her—and my blood went ice cold.Bianca. Wrapped in a blanket like some tragic queen, lounging on a bench while barking orders at the gardeners.Half the roses were already gone. Uprooted, crushed, scattered like trash.Our garden—destroyed on her say-so."What are you doing?!" I shouted, running over—only to get stonewalled by one of the bodyguards.She didn't even flinch. "Redesigning the garden, obviously. These tacky roses? Not my vibe. Caterina and Orlando said I could treat the place like it's mine. I'm just swapping out YOUR flowers."Then came the dagger:"What right does a bitter woman like you have to complain?"I'd planned to leave quietly. But I guess I couldn't even take one memory with me.I knelt down, picked up one of the crushed ros
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