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White rose petals scattered across the snow-covered road as the funeral convoy slowly left the Moretti estate.Lorenzo followed the hearse on foot for a long distance.Father never looked back. Before entering his car, he only said coldly, “Mr. Moretti, you will remain here.”Lorenzo stopped.Snow settled across his shoulders.As he watched the hearse disappear, countless small memories returned to him.The first night I moved into the Moretti estate, I could not sleep. I sat beside the window with my knees drawn to my chest until morning.During the early months of my pregnancy, I vomited until I could not even keep down water, yet I still asked whether my illness would delay the family meeting scheduled for the next morning.In our second year of marriage, I asked him to take me to the ocean.Instead, he built a glass conservatory behind the estate. He covered the floor with white sand, installed a shallow artificial pool, and filled the room with speakers that played the sound of wa
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Of course Bianca had considered it.Every time she drove away from the city and saw the iron gates of the Caruso estate in her rearview mirror, she thought about it.She wondered whether Mother would summon Isabel for another lecture when no one could find her.She wondered whether Father, after learning about her latest trouble, would sigh again and say that one reckless daughter was enough, so Isabel could not be permitted a single mistake.But Bianca never allowed herself to think any further.If she had followed those thoughts to their end, she would have understood that every mile of open road she traveled had been purchased with another door closing on Isabel.The spices, postcards, and glass wind chimes she sent home had never truly been gifts.They were small offerings pushed between the bars of a cage whenever her guilt became difficult to ignore.Bianca's voice shook.“I'll come home.”“I'll stay with the family. I'll learn to follow the rules, and I'll never cause trouble fo
He Gave Her the World, and Me a Cage Chapter 7
At dawn, the butler entered carrying a box.“Sir, this is the item you commissioned last month.”Lorenzo did not respond, so the butler placed it on the table.Inside was a handmade silver baby rattle engraved with the Moretti crest. Beside it lay a key that had never been given to me.Lorenzo had already ordered the sunniest room in the estate converted into a nursery, but he had never told me.He had acted as though the baby meant nothing to him, yet he had personally reviewed every design. He insisted that none of the furniture have sharp corners, that the curtains block the strongest sunlight, and that the rug be soft enough to protect a child who fell.I would never see that room.Bianca approached the bed. She reached for my face, but her fingers stopped before touching me.“Isabel.”Her voice broke.“I always said I would take you to see the world one day.”“But I traveled too far, and I looked back too rarely.”“You spent five years trapped inside the life our two families arra
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The wind outside the warehouse seemed to fall silent.For one empty moment, nothing moved in Lorenzo's eyes.Then he gave a faint laugh.“What did you say?”The doctor did not dare repeat himself.Lorenzo bent down and lifted me from the stretcher. His hands were shaking so violently that he could not keep his coat around my body.“Isabel.”My head fell soundlessly against his arm. Snowmelt clung to the ends of my hair, brushing lightly across the back of his hand.That small touch of cold pierced him like a needle. His fingers recoiled.Only then did he seem to understand that no amount of warmth could reach me anymore.The color slowly drained from his face.He looked at the hands I had held over my abdomen. The blood no longer flowed, but it stained his palm a dark, terrible red.He remembered the first time the baby moved when I was five months pregnant.That night, I had taken his hand and pressed it to my belly, my eyes bright with wonder.“Did you feel that?”He had deliberately
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I did not know when Claire regained consciousness.She threw herself forward and clung to the attacker's leg.“Help! Somebody help us!”The blade changed direction and slashed deep across her shoulder.She screamed but refused to let go.Suddenly, blinding headlights appeared at the far end of the warehouse lane.A gunshot passed so close to Claire that it stirred her hair. Blood burst from the leader's shoulder.“Drop your weapons!”Moretti security flooded the warehouse district and forced the attackers to the ground within moments.When the security chief knelt beside me, every trace of color had left his face.“Mrs. Moretti.”His voice broke.“Mr. Moretti ordered an additional team to follow your convoy. The moment your bracelet triggered the alarm, they came after you.”Claire's sobbing abruptly went silent.She looked down at me, tears falling onto my face one after another.“Madam, did you hear that?”“He didn't leave you unprotected. Mr. Moretti sent the men who saved us.”“Ple
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I had almost looked forward to the race, but the belt around the red leather jacket made it difficult to breathe.Claire remained silent during the drive. I knew she was angry because I had not refused.But Father had already called to remind me that several allied families would be present. Under no circumstances could I allow outsiders to believe the Caruso sisters were divided.I had married into the Moretti family so my father would not be placed in a difficult position and so the alliance between our families would remain secure.At the harbor, twelve racing cars stood in a row along the docks. Searchlights swept across the water, and luxury cars belonging to allied families lined the shore.The guests kept looking from Bianca to me and back again.Someone laughed quietly.“Put twins in matching clothes and you really can't tell them apart.”“I heard Mr. Moretti was supposed to marry Bianca, but somehow he ended up with the younger sister.”I stood in the sea wind while the tight
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