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"It's all your fault! Alex left me because of you! Go and die!"Lilith's face was vicious as she came at me with a knife.My body moved before my mind did.I'd been putting in live drills every day that week. It was already muscle memory.But someone grabbed hold of me.I heard the sound of a blade going into flesh.Alex had crushed me against his chest, putting himself between me and her.The knife went into his back. Deep.Lilith had come for my life.Blood welled up around the handle and spread in a wide dark stain."Valeria... it's okay... she didn't touch you..."Lilith was stunned by what had just happened in front of her.She let go of the handle and stumbled back two steps, shaking all over."No... it wasn't supposed to be like this... I didn't want to hurt Alex..."She grabbed her own head and started screaming, her face a mess of tears and snot."It's you! Valeria! You destroyed everything!"Then she pointed at me and started laughing, and I could see something in her had alr
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In the end Alex left the Moretti estate in pieces.I walked the other way and didn't look back.Later Angela told me Alex had thrown Lilith out of the Castellano Family.That surprised me."Didn't he promise Antonio he'd look after her? He just threw her out?"Angela rolled her eyes."He promised all of us he'd be good to you forever, too!"A man's promises are worth listening to and nothing more."I thought that was the end of it.But I underestimated Lilith.A few nights later Angela sent me a link out of nowhere.Then she sent ten exclamation marks in a row."Look at this right the hell now!"I opened it. Lilith had posted a long piece on the private network the Families all used.The title was, "Some Loves Are Wrong From the Very Start."She wrote that she and Alex and Antonio had grown up together, the three of them inseparable.She said Antonio had died at a wedding shielding Alex, and weddings had terrified her ever since.She said Alex had promised Antonio he would take care of
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"No... no, protecting you was real."Part of the reason was Lilith..."Alex's fists were clenched, the knuckles white."Every time you brought up having a wedding, Lilith found out and threatened to kill herself."I promised Antonio I'd keep her safe...""So you offered me up instead?"I cut him off."No, Valeria, believe me, you're the only person I love!"He explained fast, like he was afraid I'd turn and go."That recording isn't complete! Lilith cut off what came after."I told her that once the ceremony was done, we'd act like none of it ever happened."I wanted her to move on and stop interfering in our life."Valeria, from now on you'll have all of me. Please, give me one more chance. I'll make it right."I lifted my eyes to him and smiled."Alex, do you think I left because you had a wedding with Lilith?"Alex faltered."Didn't you?""No."I looked at him, my voice level."What I hate most is being lied to."And you have been lying to me all along."I didn't give Alex room to a
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I didn't see the farce with my own eyes.But Angela recorded it and sent it to me.At the end of the video, Alex bolted out of the church, leaving Lilith and Martina behind.Everyone stood watching the two of them and muttering.Martina was still refusing to bend. She raised her voice at the people around her."Valeria is being ridiculous. It was a form of treatment for Lilith. It wasn't a real wedding. It doesn't count!"Nobody backed her up.Fine, call the wedding a treatment.Was the ring the Castellanos had passed down for generations also a treatment?Martina had always cared about appearances, and once she saw the contempt in everyone's eyes, the smile finally slid off her face.Lilith was still trying to protect her image in front of Martina.She made a show of taking the blame on herself."It's all my fault. Don't blame Alex..."I was too selfish. I made him come to New York with me..."Martina's anger found its outlet in a heartbeat.She pointed a shaking finger at Lilith."Of
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"You're telling me to get out?"Lilith's voice went shrill."Alex, you're telling me to get out for her?"Alex turned to look at her, his eyes red."If it weren't for you, Valeria wouldn't have left!"If you hadn't kept telling me weddings set you off, I would have married her properly years ago!"Then his eyes lit up again."That's it, my wedding with Lilith was fake. Angela, tell Valeria for me!"Alex looked at Angela and explained in a rush."Ever since Lilith's ex-boyfriend Antonio was shot at a wedding, weddings have triggered her."A few days ago Lilith told me her doctor suggested that having a wedding of her own might help her get past it, so I..."Lilith's eyes filled. She stared at Alex in disbelief."So now it's all my fault? You're the one who agreed to it!"You're the one who said Valeria would never find out!"Did I drag you to New York in ropes!"Angela watched the two of them tear at each other, then picked up the flash drive I had left on the altar.She pushed it into
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Lilith hid her hand behind her back on reflex.It was already too late.Martina stepped forward and brazened it out."I only lent it to Lilith to wear for a little while..."Nobody said a word.Nobody there was stupid.The silence spoke for all of them.But Alex seemed not to notice any of it.He only stared at Angela, urgent, hoping."Where is Valeria? Angela, I'm begging you, tell me!"You're closer to her than anyone. You know where she is, don't you!"Angela didn't answer. She took a step back and looked at Alex with disgust."Alex, Valeria loved you. She really loved you."The only jewel the Moretti Family had, and she agreed to five years of a secret marriage! Five years of swallowing it!"She ran your Family business for you! When you were attacked she sat outside that operating room two days and two nights without closing her eyes! Lilith humiliated her in front of guests over and over and she took it, for you!"And you! What did you do for her? She deserved so much better than
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