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Chapter 17
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2026-05-10 05:19:10
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~~Author’s pov~~Oriana was in the garden mid-afternoon replaying what had happened earlier this morning when she heard heels on the stone path.Not Rosa’s.These were sharper. Intentional. The kind of sound that didn’t ask permission to exist.Oriana looked up.The woman rounding the bend stopped when she saw her.Striking was the first word that came to mind.Dark red hair loosely pinned. Sharp features softened only by confidence. Fitted trousers, tailored jacket, heels entirely impractical for a garden path and somehow perfectly suited to her anyway.She studied Oriana openly.Curious. Assessing. Not hostile.“So you actually exist,” the woman said.Oriana smiled faintly. “People keep saying that.”The woman laughed — easy, genuine — and sat beside her without invitation, like the space already belonged to her.“Violetta,” she said.“Oriana.”“I know.”Her smile warmed slightly.“The entire house knows who you are.”Oriana wasn’t surprised.“How are you holding up?” Violetta asked
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~~Oriana~~ I didn’t move. I should have gone upstairs like he told me to. I knew that. But my feet stayed exactly where they were, half hidden behind the railing, fingers curled around the wood as if letting go would mean missing something important. Or irreversible. One of Ciro’s men disappeared briefly through a side door. The man’s eyes followed him. Confusion first. Then unease, then understanding. It happened slowly — recognition spreading across his face like a shadow moving over water. “No—” he started, forcing a laugh that sounded wrong even to him. “Signore, non c'è bisogno —” [Capo, there’s no need—] Ciro didn’t respond. He simply waited. The man returned carrying a small black case. Not large. Not dramatic. Just… precise. He placed it carefully on the marble table near the entrance and stepped back. The click of the latches opening sounded louder than it should have. Metal gleamed inside. Small instruments arranged neatly in velvet.
POSSESSED BY CIRO Chapter 18
~~Oriana~~I realised something had changed when I woke up before the house did.The silence felt different.Not empty but expectant.The canal outside was still half asleep, morning light stretching slowly across the water like it wasn’t in any hurry to become day yet. I stayed in bed longer than usual, staring at the ceiling, replaying yesterday without meaning to.The study.The quiet.The way he had asked good quiet or bad quiet like the answer mattered.It shouldn’t have mattered.But it did. That was the problem.I got up before I could think too much about it and dressed quickly, pulling on one of the softer sweaters Ciro had somehow added to my wardrobe without discussion.The house smelled faintly of coffee when I stepped into the hallway.He was already awake.Of course he was.Ciro stood near the windows overlooking the canal, jacket off, sleeves rolled, phone pressed to his ear. He didn’t notice me immediately.His voice was low.Controlled.Italian, fast and sharp.Not th
POSSESSED BY CIRO Chapter 17
~~Oriana's Pov~~I woke up and the first thing that came back to me was that one second.His eyes dropping to my mouth.Just that. One second and then gone. Like it hadn’t happened. Like he hadn’t stood there close enough that I could feel the warmth coming off him and then sent me to bed like a gentleman, which honestly was both the right thing to do and also somehow the most frustrating thing he had ever done.I lay there staring at the ceiling.My chest felt different this morning. Lighter, maybe. Less like I was carrying something heavy and more like I had put it down somewhere and hadn’t picked it back up yet.I wasn’t going to examine that too hard.I got up, washed my face and looked at myself in the mirror.Same face. Same eyes. Same Oriana Vitale who had come to Venice for a court case and a weekend with her best friend and had somehow ended up here.I still looked tired, but it was softer than before. The kind that came from actually sleeping rather than the kind that came
POSSESSED BY CIRO Chapter 16
~~Oriana~~The walk back was quiet.Not uncomfortable quiet. Just the kind that settles between two people when too much has already been said and neither of them wants to mess with it by adding more.The city was doing its early evening thing around us. Shopkeepers pulling down shutters. A group of tourists crowded around a map looking lost.The smell of food coming from somewhere that made my stomach clench because I had barely eaten since breakfast.Ciro walked beside me.At some point the path narrowed and a woman was coming the other way with a pram and his hand came to my back for a second to move me to the side.Three seconds maybe.Then it was gone.I didn’t say anything.But I was aware of that spot on my back for the rest of the walk home and that was honestly quite annoying.Rosa was at dinner.I could have kissed her for it.Not because I was trying to avoid being alone with Ciro exactly. More because Rosa at a dinner table was like opening a window in a stuffy room. She t
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~~Oriana~~I woke up and just stared at the ceiling for a while.Not the anxious kind of staring from the past few days. This was different.More like my brain was still trying to catch up with everything that had happened last night and hadn’t quite gotten there yet.I turned onto my side.The rose was still on the windowsill. Still red. Still completely unbothered.I had this strange urge to talk to it. Which told me I had officially been in this house too long without proper human contact. Cassie would have laughed herself off the bed if she could see me right now, lying here processing my feelings about a mafia king like I had a single normal thought left in my head.I pressed my face into the pillow.The thing was – and I really did not want to be thinking this – last night had not gone the way I expected. I had gone into that study ready to be angry. Ready to stand on the other side of that desk and remind myself of every single reason why Ciro Conti was the villain of this pa
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