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He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 10
I stood beneath the awning and listened to the rain.“No,” I said. “I don’t think you leave seven years behind all at once.”Hope moved across his face.I hated that I could still read him so easily.“But I can stop giving you the next seven.”He shook his head.“I never meant to make you feel disposable.”“You kept telling me I had everything. Then, every time she wanted something, you took it from me. My home. My work. Your trust.”“I thought I could make it up to you.”“With what? A bigger wedding? More roses?”He couldn’t answer.“You knew I’d forgive things from you that I wouldn’t forgive from anyone else. You used that, even if you didn’t call it that.”His eyes filled.“I was wrong.”“Yes.”“I can change.”“I hope you do.”He took the words as gently as if I had struck him.I looked at the man I had loved since I was seventeen. There were things I would probably always miss. His hand finding mine in his sleep. The terrible coffee he insisted he made well.Those things had been
He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 9
It rained all afternoon in Vienna.I left the office with my umbrella open, thinking about the contract I needed to review before Monday. Lukas from our risk team had offered me a ride to the café where several colleagues were meeting us.I saw the black sedan before I saw Luca.He stepped out into the rain without a coat.For a moment, I remembered him at seventeen, waiting outside my school because I’d missed the bus. He had been soaked that day too. I had thought no one would ever make me feel safer.“Elena.”I stopped beneath the office awning.“Luca. What are you doing here?”He seemed to flinch at how calmly I said his name.“Your attorney said you’d received the records.”“I have.”“Bianca’s under investigation. The consortium has withdrawn her award. Your work is credited to you again, and Bellavista is secure.”“Good.”He took a step closer.“Your parents are devastated. They know what they did. Your mother keeps your bracelet beside her bed.”I tightened my grip on the umbrel
He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 8
The police arrived at Bellavista the following morning.Bianca was there collecting stock under the property manager’s supervision. When the officers asked her to come with them, she insisted they call Luca.The false purchase orders had become a fraud investigation. The stolen proposal and the campaign against me were already in the hands of lawyers.“Tell him who I am,” she said, clutching her handbag. “He’ll explain.”Across the street, Luca sat in his car with the window half lowered.He watched her look for him.For once, he didn’t move.Afterward, he went to my parents’ house.My mother was in the sitting room. My father stood by the fireplace, holding the photograph of Daniel Rossi carrying me out of the smoke.They had had two weeks to learn I was gone.Now they had to learn what they had done to keep the wrong daughter happy.Luca placed the rest of the evidence on the table.There were the stolen contracts. The messages to Bruno. The bills for designer bags paid from the educ
He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 7
Two weeks into my new job, I completed my first contract without anyone mentioning my family.The client asked hard questions. I answered them. We revised two clauses, agreed on the numbers, and shook hands.It should have been ordinary.I walked back to my desk feeling as if I had recovered something that belonged to me.Adrian stopped by with two coffees.“Well done, Elena.”Not good for a Moretti. Not surprising for someone who had everything.Just well done.My mother had been sending messages through the attorney. Some begged me to come home. Others said they had made mistakes. There were no more demands that I apologize to Bianca.I wasn’t ready to answer them.That afternoon, I received a message I did read.Daniel Rossi. The firefighter who had carried me out.The attorney had asked whether I wanted contact. I had said yes.I’m glad to hear you’re well. You don’t owe me anything. I was doing my job.I read the last sentence until the words blurred.At almost the same time, Luca
He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 6
Luca went back to his office and laid my engagement ring on his desk.He had spent four months finding the stone. He remembered the jeweler suggesting something larger, and how firmly he had refused. I hated rings that caught on my clothes. He had known that.He knew how I took my coffee. Which side of the bed I slept on. That I went quiet when I was hurt and angry when I was frightened.He had loved me in a hundred small, attentive ways.Then he had used all that knowledge to convince himself I would survive the things he did to me.His assistant knocked.“We found a public staff announcement. Keller European Logistics.”He set a tablet on the desk.My name appeared beneath a new title: Director of Cross-Border Operations. Vienna.Luca read the short biography. My qualifications. My previous projects. Nothing about the Morettis. Nothing about him.“How long has she been planning this?”“I don’t know.”“She couldn’t have arranged a job, a move, everything, overnight.”“No.”His assista
He Gave Her Everything That Was Mine Chapter 5
Twelve hours after leaving the hotel, I unlocked a small apartment in Vienna.There were no guards at the entrance. Nobody checked who I was visiting. A neighbor held the outer door for me and went back to carrying her groceries.I had forgotten a door could be just a door.Adrian Keller had left a key with the building manager and a welcome folder on the kitchen table. He had taught me international trade compliance before leaving my father’s company to start his own legitimate logistics firm.For months, he had been offering me a position.I had kept saying I couldn’t leave before the wedding.Now my signed employment agreement was in the folder. So were the work-authorization documents we had completed while I was still telling myself I wouldn’t need them.Beside them lay a note.Your first day is Monday. Until then, sleep.I stood in the quiet kitchen and cried for the first time.Not because I wanted to go back.Because there was finally no one watching who would call it selfish.
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