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Chapter 15

Penulis: Esther pen
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ISABELLA’S POV

I didn’t expect him to say yes.

And I definitely didn’t expect him to come with me.

The whole night after leaving his office, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Dante Moretti, cold, distant, unreadable, had offered to go with me. He hadn’t even hesitated. Just said it like it was nothing. Like he hadn’t spent weeks avoiding me unless it was necessary.

Part of me thought he was joking. The other part… wasn’t so sure.

The orphanage had always been mine. My secret place. My peace. No bodyguards. No guns. No blood on the floor or whispers of loyalty and betrayal. Just laughter. Tiny hands that reached for mine. Small voices that called me Miss Ella.

It had been that way since I was sixteen.

I still remembered the day my grandfather asked what I wanted for my birthday. Everyone else had expected me to ask for diamonds or a car. My father even had a gift ready, something to make me “look the part” of a Russo.

But I told my grandfather I wanted to help people. Children, mostly
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