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0084: The Calm Before The Consequences
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AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0084: The Calm Before The Consequences
ADRIANA’S POVI stayed outside the warehouse long after the door closed behind me. The night air carried the faint metallic scent of the place and the distant sound of men moving inside, but I did not leave. I sat on the low concrete ledge near the car and let the truths Valentino had finally spoken settle into the spaces they had always belonged. My mother had died while bringing another child into this world. The infant had died with her. Valentino had possessed every resource needed to save them. Doctors, money, and the time. But he had chosen not to use any of it because he believed the lies told about her. But who told him such lies? The timeline fits too cleanly. First he sent her from the house and within two months he moved his pregnant mistress in and she automatically became his new wife and Donna of the Rossi syndicate. Cassandra didn’t only become Donna, she became the one with the authority in the syndicate, her words were law, and when she had Vaelina it became worse.
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0083: No Grave For The Guilty
ALESSANDRO’S POVAdriana’s footsteps faded beyond the warehouse door. The quiet she left behind pressed against my eardrums harder than the earlier gunfire of orders and chains. She was unhappy. The tears she had not bothered to hide and the rigid line of her back as she walked away was caused by the man still hanging in front of me. Valentino had shaped every fracture in her life. He had torn her from her mother, buried the truth of that woman’s death under lies, stripped every photograph and keepsake, then sold her into a marriage with Roman Santis when he knew she was mine. The nights I had spent believing she chose to leave, the nights I had wanted to find her only to end her, the nights I had lain awake imagining what that household did to her body and mind, all of it rose now in a single dark current. I had promised her that I would be careful with my body and not do anything that could cause me complications. But that promise frayed with every breath I took while looking at hi
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0082: The Price Of Blood
ADRIANA’S POVAlessandro studied my face for a long moment as if he was weighing what I had just said. Something in my expression must have convinced him that the declaration was permanent. “Of course, future Mrs Orsini,” he said at last. “You can come along. The more the merrier.” I smiled at the name future Mrs. Orsini. I felt relief and a sharper purpose move through me at the same time. I did not care about Valentino’s comfort or his survival. The man had stopped being my father the day he tore me from the only soft place I had ever known. I was going into that room for one reason only. I needed answers about my mother. Her name had been Rosaline Sloane Hernández. She was the real Rosa, I had only adopted the name when I was fifteen so I would never forget the sound of it. When I was fourteen years old Valentino had told me she had died. That single sentence was all I had ever received. There was no location of where she was buried, no grave and above all there was no explana
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0081: The Transition
ALESSANDRO’S POV “… you’ve got to open that door, but you are not doing it alone.”Adriana’s words settled over me while her arms stayed careful around my shoulders. The simplicity of the offer carried more weight than she could know. I had told her the story of my biological parents and the possibility of Vittorio being the man behind their death, because I no longer knew where else to place it. Trust had become a scarce thing. The revelations of the past days had shown me that people I once considered fixed points could shift without warning. Garcia had raised me since I was a teenager. Liora was my sister, probably the only person who never succumbed to my bullshit. I love them, but still I could not bring myself to let them in on this discovery until I’m sure it’s the truth. But Adriana was different. Despite the lies she had told and the decisions she had made without me, she remained the one person I could open the darkest rooms for. Telling her had finalized something inside
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0080: Truths In The Quiet Room
ADRIANA’S POV “… Grazie a dio,” Garcia said, her voice loud with happiness and broken sobs. “We are on our way. Tell my son that his mother is on her way.” I could hear Liora crying with relief in the background. The gloom that had settled over the family for three days had finally lifted.“Of course, Mother,” I replied, clutching my dress to suppress my own happy tears. I ended the call and leaned against the cool wall of the corridor. A long breath left me. For the first time in three days the tight band around my chest loosened a fraction. He was awake. He had looked at me and said my name. The rest of the fear could wait one more minute while I simply stood there and let the fact settle.My mind drifted back to the conversation with Rocco after I had first voiced my suspicion days ago. I had told him I believed Roman and his mother Catherine were behind the crash. Rocco had listened without interruption and then shaken his head. According to him, the attempt on Alessandro’s li
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 0079: Three Days Under
ALESSANDRO’S POV Rain hammered the windshield until the road disappeared into streaks of light. Tears still burned tracks down my face from everything Raffaello had forced into the open. The wheel felt slick under my palms. Headlights flared too bright from the opposite direction. Then the impact came hard from the side, metal screaming as the other vehicle drove into me once. The car lurched. Another slam followed, heavier, deliberate, pushing the frame inward. Glass exploded across my lap and chest. I tried to correct, but the third hit finished whatever control I had left.“Adriana—”Her name left my mouth as the world turned over in a roar of rain and tearing steel. And the last thing I remembered was darkness swallowing everything.I woke up to a different kind of weight. I felt something rigid sitting in my throat, I heard something beeping steadily somewhere to my left. My eyelids dragged upward against a heavy pull. White ceiling tiles swam into focus, then the rails of a be
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 007: Broken Fire
ALESSANDRO’S POVI strode down the dimly lit west wing corridor, my footsteps echoing against the marble like distant gunshots. The meeting with my capos had stretched well into the night, leaving a sour taste in my mouth that no amount of whiskey could wash away. “Don, the evidence is clear, Vale
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 006: The Cage
ADRIANA’S POVI followed Alessandro out of the club on legs that felt like they belonged to someone else. The rain had slowed to a miserable drizzle, but my clothes remained cold and heavy, plastered against my skin like a second layer of shame. The words I had spoken earlier still echoed in my mi
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 005: The Only Option
ALESSANDRO’S POV“Looks like the ground is crumbling faster than you expected,” I said quietly, my voice echoing across the deserted space. “Now tell me, Adriana. Are you ready to reconsider my offer?”I watched her spin around in the middle of the empty club floor like a broken doll caught in a st
AFTER FIVE YEARS, HE FOUND ME 004: No Place Left
ADRIANA’S POVI shoved through the club’s back door and ran straight into the pouring rain without looking back. My heart hammered wildly as Alessandro’s cruel words replayed in my mind with every splash of my heels through puddles. The way he had stared at me with such hatred, the degrading offer
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