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Chapter Nine

Author: Enny Tiana
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-25 01:24:24

Ruin in Red

The ring on Amara’s finger felt heavier than metal.

It pulsed like a second heartbeat — one she hadn’t asked for. One she wasn’t sure she could live with. But when Luca had slid it onto her finger in that shadowed room filled with Moretti bloodlines and secrets, something inside her shifted.

Not surrendered.

Not softened.

Just… changed.

She stood now at the edge of the Moretti's estate's west balcony, Sicily sprawling before her in shades of dusk and gold. The sea glimmered in the distance, waves rolling like whispers of everything she had once lost.

Her fingers curled around the railing iron.

She didn't hear him come up behind her. But she felt him.

Luca always moved like that — quiet as death, but twice as final.

“You haven’t taken it off,” he said, voice close to her ear.

She didn't turn. “I haven't decided if I'll give it back yet.”

He chuckled, low and rough. “You can try. But we both know you won't.”

She tilted her head. “Because you think you own me?”

“Because you
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