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Chapter 70

Author: ~ Naomi ~
last update publish date: 2026-04-09 00:44:50

JOVANI'S POV

The cafe encounter had been perfect because Donatella had been way too clueless.

She had looked at me like I was exactly what I pretended to be—charming, successful, harmless. She even gave me her number without hesitation and even smiled when I flirted like she wasn't Lorenzo Vittorini's sister and I wasn't the man planning to destroy her entire world.

Amateur hour, truly.

I walked into my warehouse office that was a converted industrial space up town and felt the familiar ache in
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