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CHAPTER 192: Protection

Author: Feibulous
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-13 01:12:13
Dante

[Months ago]

I understand the magnitude of risk in traveling south to confront Felix Doyle.

But when he sent the invitation, I accepted it—man to man. Still, I wasn’t about to walk into this alone. I brought two of Ivan’s most trusted men with me. Whatever happened, I had to see him. I needed to look into the eyes of the man who caused Gianna so much pain.

She hadn’t been truly happy for the past five years. Maybe even longer than that.

And maybe that was one of the reasons I stayed away, why I tried not to add to her internal suffering.

Felix may have initiated the meeting, but that didn’t mean I was letting him dictate the terms.

Coincidentally, I had a valid reason to be in the area—a follow-up with a patient I’d seen on my last visit, the same trip when intimacy between Gianna and me began to change. I asked Felix to meet me at the hospital.

I was sitting on a bench in the open garden space on the third floor, letting the warm breeze wash over me, when Felix stepped t
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