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THE BREAKING

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Sienna moved to the window, staring out at gardens now familiar after months of captivity.

"I still want to meet Serena; despite everything, despite the photographs and the obsession.

I need to see my sister, need to know the woman you actually wanted."

"We'll arrange it," Luca promised. "After you've had time to process everything, after emotions aren't so raw.

You'll meet her, and maybe seeing the reality versus the fantasy will help clarify things."

"Or it'll make everything worse," Sienna suggested. "Show me exactly what I'm not, what I can never be."

"Or it'll show you that who you are is better than any fantasy," Luca countered. "That reality, messy, complicated, refusing to cooperate is more valuable than idealized memory."

Sienna turned from the window. "You really believe that? That I'm better than your fifteen-year fantasy?"

"I'm starting to," Luca admitted. "I can't promise I'm completely free of the obsession, can't claim I've fully separated you from it but eve
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    Luca watched as the doctor worked, each of Sienna's pained gasps hitting him like physical blows. She'd been hurt protecting a child, had run toward danger without hesitation when any rational person would have run away. Maria's mother burst into the room, tears streaming down her face, her daughter clutched in her arms; when she saw Sienna, she fell to her knees. "Signorina," she sobbed. "You saved my baby, you saved Maria when you could have run to safety. How can I ever thank you?" "She's okay?" Sienna asked, her voice weak. "Maria's not hurt?" "Not a scratch," the woman confirmed. "Because you covered her, protected her with your own body; signorina, you're a hero." "Not a hero," Sienna said, wincing as the doctor pulled out a particularly large stone fragment. "Just someone who heard a child screaming anyone would have done the same." "No," Luca said quietly. "Not anyone; most people's instinct is self-preservation, especially during an attack; you ran toward danger to sav

  • STOLEN BY THE DON   THE BOMB

    "Now he's weak," Enzo confirmed. "And weakness in a Don doesn't just affect him, it affects everyone. So yes, I'm using this opportunity to claim what should have been mine from the beginning but I'm also genuinely preventing disaster, genuinely saving an organization that's bleeding power." "What about Matteo?" Paulo asked. "Luca's consigliere is loyal to a fault. He'll never support this, will fight you every step." "Matteo is a problem," Enzo acknowledged. "But he's also practical, if I can show him concrete evidence that Luca's obsession is destroying what they've built.If I can demonstrate that organizational survival requires new leadership, he might step aside, might choose the greater good over personal loyalty." "And if he doesn't?" "Then he becomes collateral damage," Enzo said coldly. "I respect Matteo, recognize his value but I won't let one man's loyalty to my brother doom hundreds of others. If he stands in the way of necessary change, he'll be removed along w

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    "Then I've proven myself completely irredeemable," Luca said simply. "More monstrous than I already am,this is a line I'm drawing for myself, a boundary I'm committing not to cross. If I break it, there's no coming back from that." Sienna felt something shift in her chest, this wasn't freedom, wasn't fixing the fundamental wrong but it was something, a genuine concession that gave her back piece of control. "I accept your vow," she said finally. "And I'll hold you to it, if you cross this line, if you touch me without consent even once, we're done, whatever this is between us ends completely." "Understood," Luca said. "And accepted. I'm putting everything at risk with this vow. Any chance of physical intimacy, any possibility of comfort between us - all of it contingent on your choice rather than my desire." "That's how it should have been from the beginning," Sienna said. "Yes," Luca agreed. "It should have been. I'm years too late offering what should have been baseline

  • STOLEN BY THE DON   THE VOW

    The morning after Sienna's breakdown, she woke feeling hollowed out but strangely lighter. Crying for hours had purged something, had released pressure that had been building for months. She found Luca already awake in the dining room, coffee prepared, breakfast laid out. He looked up when she entered, concern immediately crossing his features. "How are you feeling?" he asked carefully. "Empty," Sienna admitted, sitting across from him. "But in a good way, I think, like I've finally let out pressure that was destroying me from the inside." "You slept?" Luca asked. "Actually slept," Sienna confirmed. "First time in weeks I didn't lie awake processing, exhaustion finally won over anxiety." They ate in comfortable silence for several minutes. Finally, Luca set down his coffee and looked at her directly. "I've been thinking about last night, about what you said regarding feeling like you can't control anything, can't make choices in your own life." "I said a lot of things last ni

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    "I don't know," Sienna admitted. "But I can't... I can't hold myself together anymore, can't keep being strong when I'm so tired of fighting." Luca moved to sit beside her, pulling her carefully into his arms. Sienna resisted for a moment, then collapsed against him, sobbing into his chest while his arms came around her. "I've got you," he murmured. "You don't have to be strong right now; you can break, and I'll hold the pieces." That made her cry harder, months of accumulated grief and rage and confusion pouring out in waves.Luca held her through it, one hand in her hair, the other rubbing her back, not trying to fix or minimize, just being present while she fell apart. "I miss my apartment," Sienna gasped between sobs. "My terrible, tiny apartment with the leaky sink and the neighbors who fought at 3 AM. I miss my life, my freedom, the ability to walk down a street without guards following." "I know," Luca said quietly. "I miss Elena," Sienna continued. "She's dead, has been

  • STOLEN BY THE DON   THE BREAKING

    Sienna moved to the window, staring out at gardens now familiar after months of captivity. "I still want to meet Serena; despite everything, despite the photographs and the obsession.I need to see my sister, need to know the woman you actually wanted." "We'll arrange it," Luca promised. "After you've had time to process everything, after emotions aren't so raw.You'll meet her, and maybe seeing the reality versus the fantasy will help clarify things." "Or it'll make everything worse," Sienna suggested. "Show me exactly what I'm not, what I can never be." "Or it'll show you that who you are is better than any fantasy," Luca countered. "That reality, messy, complicated, refusing to cooperate is more valuable than idealized memory." Sienna turned from the window. "You really believe that? That I'm better than your fifteen-year fantasy?" "I'm starting to," Luca admitted. "I can't promise I'm completely free of the obsession, can't claim I've fully separated you from it but eve

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