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Chapter 6-Serafina's POV
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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
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 24-Serafina's POV
The mistake didn’t announce itself with alarms or blood.It arrived quietly, the way real disasters always did wrapped in competence, hidden beneath calm voices and screens that still pretended to behave.I was standing by the counter, my phone pressed to my ear, listening to Matteo breathe on the other end of the line while he cross-checked numbers I’d already memorized. The safehouse smelled like coffee and disinfectant, the kind of artificial cleanliness that never quite masked fear.“Say it again,” I told him.“The Zurich liquidity channel cleared,” Matteo replied. “Early.”“How early?”“Thirty-six minutes.”That was wrong. Not suspicious. Not inconvenient.Wrong.I lowered the phone slowly. “That channel doesn’t move without staggered confirmation.”“I know,” he said. “It didn’t ask.”My pulse kicked. “That’s impossible.”Behind me, Vittorio let out a low sound that wasn’t quite a laugh. “Nothing’s impossible when Luca is involved.”I turned around. Vittorio was leaning against t
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 23-Luca's POV
Pain is an inefficient sensation.I learned that early learned to cut around it, to cauterize before it spread. Pain makes men sloppy. Makes them sentimental. Makes them reach when they should wait.And yet—It sat in my chest now, uninvited, unmoving.A dull pressure beneath my sternum, constant enough that I noticed it even while reviewing data streams, even while issuing instructions, even while the city bent itself into new patterns at my command.Serafina.The thought of her arrived without permission, as it had been doing for days now, threading itself through everything else. I did not summon it. I did not encourage it.It came anyway.I stood alone in the private observatory of my penthouse, the lights of the city spread below like a living organism, arteries glowing, veins pulsing, systems responding to unseen hands. Mine. Always mine.I pressed my palm briefly against the glass.The pain sharpened.Not dramatic. Not crippling.Persistent.I had taken her for granted.Not he
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 22-Serafina's POV
I didn’t need silence to think.Silence was simply what followed when everyone else realized the room belonged to me.The command floor was buried beneath reinforced concrete and old money constructed back when discretion mattered more than display. No windows. No art. Just screens, cables, and the hum of systems that had never once failed me.Three men waited at the table.They did not look at one another. They did not speak.They knew better.“Their location is confirmed,” one of them said carefully. “All assets are in place.”I nodded once.No rush.The reports scrolling across the screen frozen accounts, defecting partners, Elena Russo’s disappearance were already stale. Information lost its power the moment people believed it surprised me.It didn’t.Chaos outside never meant chaos in my head.“Begin,” I said.No emphasis. No countdown.The first interruption wasn’t violent.It was subtle.Power along the river district dipped by fractional percentages barely enough to register,
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 21-Luca POV
Chapter 21-Luca POVThe city was loud outside my windows.Sirens. Traffic. Voices raised in outrage and excitement and fear. San Verità had always loved spectacle, and tonight it was gorging itself on mine.I let it.Inside the penthouse, there was only silence.I stood barefoot on polished stone, a glass of untouched whiskey resting on the edge of my desk. The screens along the far wall glowed softly market graphs, frozen assets, news banners cycling the same tired phrases.DE SANTIS EMPIRE UNDER SCRUTINY.FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES EXPOSED.MISSING FIANCÉE STILL AT LARGE.Old information.I had known about the freezes before the banks announced them. I had known which allies would defect before they rehearsed their press statements in front of mirrors. Fear made men predictable. So did greed. So did cowardice disguised as morality.Loss looked dramatic from the outside.From here, it looked like filtration.I loosened the cuff of my shirt and moved to the window, looking down at the r
Engaged to the Devil, Loved by His Shadow Chapter 20-Serafina’s POV
We didn’t leave together.That was the first consequence. Vittorio exited without looking back, his steps measured, controlled, like a man already rerunning contingencies in his head. Elena stayed behind, gathering her tablet and papers with deliberate calm, as though the room hadn’t just split down the middle. Matteo waited until the end, eyes tracking both of them, making sure no one followed me.No one said goodbye.By the time the elevator doors slid shut, the silence felt heavier than the argument had.The city outside was still lit, still humming, still pretending it wasn’t built on deals like the one we’d just failed to make. I leaned my forehead briefly against the cool glass of the elevator wall and exhaled slowly.The safehouse Matteo took me to wasn’t one Elena had chosen.It was secluded. Purpose-built. A private penthouse carved into the upper floors of a renovated riverside complex near the industrial bend, hidden behind old brick facades that suggested abandonment whil
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