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Chapter 118

Auteur: Anney GW
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PETER’S POV

The fireplace had nearly died down, but I didn’t bother adding more wood. I liked the silence that came with the cooling of flames. The villa was quiet, too—except for the occasional creak of old floorboards or the soft thud of shifting embers. Then something scraped across the roof. A branch, probably. Or not.

I didn’t move. I just listened.

I had the whole place to myself. I liked it that way.

I’d rented the villa just outside the city after moving here. It wasn’t grand. But it was clean. Remote. Safe.

And I needed safe.

Most people thought men like me didn’t need that kind of thing. That we only knew how to build and break, cut and chase. But they forget that survival doesn’t always look like ambition. Sometimes it just looks like silence. Stillness. A room where no one can find you.

I grew up in a room like that.

Not this one. But close enough.

The Banducci family was never mine, not really. I took their name because my mother’s sister married into it, and they needed
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