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Chapter 30-Serafina's POV
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Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 30-Serafina's POV
When he kissed me, the world did explode.The kind that feels like warm water around your skin.His mouth moved slow at first, like he was learning me. Like he did not want to rush something important. My fingers tightened in his shirt, and I felt him smile against my lips.“You’re shaking,” he murmured softly.“So are you,” I whispered back.That made him laugh under his breath, low and warm.His hand slid from my waist to my neck, not tight, not rough, just enough to hold me still. His thumb brushed under my jaw and tilted my face up a little.“Look at me,” he said.I did.His eyes were not fighting.He was not thinking of plans.He was not trying to be in charge.He just really, really wanted me.“You’re not running,” he said quietly.“I’m not.”“Good.”This time when he kissed me, it was not careful.It was deeper. Warmer. Hungry in a way that made my stomach flip.His hand tightened at my neck just a little, enough to make my breath catch. Not to hurt me; he only wanted to make m
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 29-Serafina's POV
The knife slipped from my hand. It didn’t cut deep, but the sting was sharp enough to make me hiss under my breath as a thin line of red welled across my finger.“Damn it.”I dropped the knife into the sink and turned on the tap too fast. Water splashed against the counter, cold and sudden. I stared at the blood like it had betrayed me.I don’t make careless mistakes. Not with numbers. Not with people. Not with sharp objects.But Switzerland had made my hands slow.Or maybe it was the quiet.“Serafina.”Matteo’s voice came from behind me, I hadn’t even heard him walk in.“I’m fine,” I said automatically.He ignored that.Of course he did.He stepped closer, taking my wrist gently before I could pull away. His grip wasn’t controlling. It wasn’t firm in the way Luca’s had always been.It was steady.“You’re not fine,” he said, examining the cut. “You’re shaking.”“I’m not.”“You are.”I tried to tug my hand back, but he didn’t let go.“Let me see.”“It’s nothing.”“Then stop acting like
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 28-Luca's POV
They were gone.Not misplaced. Not hidden well enough to be amusing. Gone in the way that tells a man exactly how carefully the departure was planned, how many hours were spent anticipating his response, how thoroughly every predictable path had been avoided.I stood in the center of the operations room while men waited for me to speak, the air thick with restrained unease, screens alive with maps, transit records, financial pings, and dead ends that refused to resolve into something useful.“Say it again,” I said.Marco didn’t look up from the tablet in his hands. He already knew repetition would not improve the answer. “No airport footage that leads forward. Two private terminals logged anomalous gaps, both scrubbed before we accessed them. Swiss rail flagged nothing conclusive. Border crossings are clean.”Clean meant intentional.I nodded once, slow. “Communications?”“Burned,” Vittorio said from my right, his voice tight. “Old numbers. Old devices. No signal continuity long enoug
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 27-Luca's POV
You don’t allow Vittorio back into your world by accident.You don’t miscalculate and find him standing inside your perimeter. You don’t wake up one morning and decide nostalgia is worth the risk.You allow him in because you already know where he is before he does.The gate opens without stopping.I watch from the inner cameras as his car rolls through, unchallenged. No clearance checks. No confirmation protocols. The guards know better than to ask when I’ve already answered the question for them.That stillness in his posture when he steps out of the car tells me he understands exactly what this is.Good.Men who lie to themselves don’t last long here.The compound looks the same. I’ve made sure of that. Continuity is a weapon. People relax when they believe nothing has changed, and they make mistakes faster that way.I dismiss the guards inside the office before he arrives.This conversation doesn’t require witnesses.I’m standing when he enters.That alone unsettles him. I see it
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 26-Serafina's POV
Switzerland felt unreal.Not because it was beautiful and the beauty was cheap where power was involved but because nothing here reacted to me. The mountains did not bow. The air did not flinch. The city below us moved with calm precision, as if it had never heard of men like Luca De Santis and had no intention of learning.I stood at the window of the safehouse apartment, watching the lights settle into place as dusk folded itself over Zurich. Everything here was clean. Deliberate. Neutral.It was exactly why Matteo had chosen it.“You’re quiet,” he said behind me.I didn’t turn. “If I start talking, I’ll start calculating again.”“And that’s bad?”“It means I’m still trying to control what I already decided.”He accepted that without argument. Matteo had learned when to let silence do the work. It was one of the reasons Luca had underestimated him. We had crossed borders without incident. No intercepted flights. No delayed clearances. No subtle pressure masquerading as coincidenc
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 25-Serafina's POV
The fracture didn’t end with raised voices.That was the part I misunderstood about breaking points. I imagined explosions shouting, slammed doors, final words hurled like knives. But this time it was quieter. They settled into the bones and stayed there, aching long after the noise faded.When Elena left the room, she didn’t slam the door. She gathered her tablet, straightened her jacket, and walked out with her spine rigid and her expression carved into something sharp and unyielding.That restraint frightened me more than her anger would have.Vittorio didn’t follow her. He stayed seated long enough for the silence to become deliberate, then rose, adjusted his cufflinks, and nodded once as an acknowledgment, not a farewell.“I’ll handle what stays close,” he said evenly.Not we.I.Then he was gone too.That left Matteo and me alone in the aftermath, surrounded by a room that still carried the heat of confrontation. The air felt stale, like it had been breathed too many times witho
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