MasukEveryone envied my marriage to Luca Moretti, the ruthless mafia king who ruled the city with blood and power. To the world, I was the one woman he would never betray. For five years, he put me above everyone else. Protected me. Chose me. Worshipped me. Until I found out even a man like him could cheat. I tricked him into signing the divorce papers and disappeared overseas, determined to cut myself out of his empire for good. But Luca refused to let me go. He used the full reach of his underworld network to find me, then begged me for another chance. He swore he had been drugged, that the other woman meant nothing, that I was the only one he had ever loved. He promised he had already cut her out of his life. And for a year, he proved it. He chased me across countries, tore down every wall I built, and in the end, he asked me to marry him again in front of the whole world. Under fireworks and a global livestream watched by millions, I said yes. I thought this time we would finally get our forever. Then I went in for a prenatal checkup… and found him with them. Sofia Romano. And the little boy. A perfect little family I was never supposed to see. In that instant, every promise he had made turned to ash. So I arranged a fatal car crash. If a divorce still wasn’t enough to escape a mafia king’s obsession, then I would vanish the only way he could never drag me back. This time, I’m not leaving alone. I’m taking our unborn child with me—and disappearing from his world forever.
Lihat lebih banyakBy the spring two years later, the season felt gentler than any spring I could remember.The vines outside the flower shop had pushed out tender new growth again, climbing slowly up the wall. Sunlight slanted in from the end of the street, laying a soft, quiet glow over everything. I stood behind the flower stand, trimming a fresh delivery. The sunflowers were almost painfully bright, while the blue hyacinths rested off to one side, restrained somehow, as if they had learned to hold their own feelings in.Noah was playing near the entrance. Every so often, I looked up to make sure he hadn’t wandered too far and hadn’t reached for any of the thorned stems.I was bent over clipping flower stalks when the bell above the door gave a light chime.The sound was soft, but my fingers stopped on the stem.“Excuse me—do you have any blue hyacinths?”For a moment, I went completely still.Some voices time does not take.It’s Luca.I didn’t look up right away. I finished trimming the stem in my ha
I landed in the city three days later.As the plane cut through layers of cloud and began its slow descent, I leaned against the window and looked down at the red-tiled rooftops below, the stone streets catching the first wash of morning light, and the quiet stretch of blue sea opening in the distance.This was where everything would begin again.A new name.A new home.New accounts.A new number.Even the hospital I would go to for the next few months, the doctor I would see, the medication and vitamins I would need regularly—someone had arranged it all before I ever arrived.The airport was crowded, voices and footsteps echoing under the glass ceiling as I pulled my suitcase toward the exit. My reflection moved across the sliding doors ahead of me. My hair now brushed my shoulders, the ends curled softly inward. Nothing like the long, meticulously styled waves that used to fall to my waist.I used to live in heels and tailored dresses, polished and perfect, like something displayed b
Luca POVThe search at sea went on all night.I never left the marina.The wind came hard after dark. Waves kept slamming against the docks, carrying that sharp salt stink that cut straight through clothes and skin. Searchlights swept back and forth across the water, slicing the black swells into strips of white. Farther out, the salvage boats were still working. The low grind of machinery never stopped.“Don, you haven’t rested all night,” my aide said quietly. “The search teams are handling the water. Maybe you should go to the rest room for a while—”“Have they found her?”He stopped talking.The wind pushed through the open collar of my shirt like a blade. I should have been freezing. I should have been exhausted. Instead I felt nothing. It was like I’d been suspended in midair, unable to fall, unable to wake.At three in the morning, the head of the search team came back with his third report.“Don, we’ve expanded the recovery area to the southeastern waters. We’ve checked all the
Luca POV“Don, something’s happened!”My aide practically slammed the door open on his way in, sweat beading across his forehead, his voice stripped raw with panic.Sofia Romano was sitting in the corner of the sofa, the child in her arms, trying to soothe him in a low voice. He had been crying for half the afternoon. I had managed to calm him long enough to get him to sleep for a few minutes, but the second I handed him back, he started fussing again.I was already on edge. The moment my aide burst in like that, my expression darkened.“Have you forgotten the rules?”He looked ghost-pale. He could barely catch his breath.“Mrs. Moretti… something happened to Mrs. Moretti. The yacht she took to Emerald Isle exploded on the route.”My fingers stopped cold.The child was still making those small restless sounds in Sofia’s arms, but all of it suddenly felt far away.I lifted my eyes to my aide.“Say that again.”He swallowed hard, barely able to look at me.“The coast patrol just reported












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