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Chapter 15: The First Kiss
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2026-10-08 08:18:18
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The days that followed the walk through the city were the lightest since Sofia arrived at the mansion.She and Tony established a silent routine. Breakfast together, he reading the newspaper, she flipping through a book. Afternoons on the terrace, among the olive trees, talking about everything and nothing. Nights in the library, each in their own armchair, reading in silence, but aware of each other's presence.Sofia began to forget she was a prisoner. She began to forget the walls, the debt, the fear. She began to forget that Tony Marino was a mobster.That was why the shock was so violent.That afternoon, Sofia was coming down the stairs toward the library when she heard voices. Raised voices, charged with tension. She stopped in the middle of the corridor, her heart racing."You think you can deceive me?" Tony's voice was cold, sharp as a blade. "You think I don't know what you did?"Sofia should have turned back. Should have gone upstairs, gone to her room, pretended she hadn't h
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Sofia didn't expect Tony to invite her out. On the morning after the chapel, she came down for breakfast and found him already seated at the table, reading a newspaper. He seemed lighter than in the previous days, as if the confession in the east wing had removed a weight from his shoulders."Good morning," he said, raising his eyes. "Did you sleep well?""Reasonably." Sofia sat down, accepting the cup of coffee Aldo served her. "And you?""Better than I expected." Tony closed the newspaper and looked at her with an expression she couldn't decipher. "Sofia, I have a proposal."She raised an eyebrow."Another proposal? You're becoming a man of many proposals."Tony laughed, a genuine sound that lit up his face."This one is different. I want to take you out. Leave the mansion. See something beyond these walls."Sofia set her cup on the table, a little surprised."Out? I thought I couldn't leave without an escort.""And you can't." Tony stood up and walked to her. "But I'll be your esco
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Sofia didn't sleep that night. She lay in bed, eyes fixed on the ceiling, while the hours dragged slowly. The images of the east wing still burned in her mind Elena's photographs, the baby's room, Tony's face when he confessed his pain. There was something sacred in that pain, something that touched her deeply and left her restless.When the first rays of sun began to color the sky, Sofia got up. She dressed in silence, without calling Lena, and left the room. She needed a place to think. A place to pray.The library wasn't enough. Dumas's words and Tony's thoughts in the margins of the books distracted her. She needed silence. She needed God.She walked through the mansion's corridors aimlessly, her feet sliding over the Persian rugs, her eyes wandering over the walls covered in paintings. The mansion was a labyrinth, a place full of secrets and shadows. Sofia already knew the library, the terrace, the olive garden. But there were still corners she hadn't explored.That was when she
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The mansion had secrets. Sofia had always known that. There were doors that never opened, corridors that seemed to lead nowhere, whispers that echoed through the walls when night fell. But there was one place, in particular, that intrigued her more than any other: the east wing.Sofia had discovered it by chance, one afternoon while exploring the second-floor corridors. A double door of dark wood, covered by a thin layer of dust, as if no one had touched it in years. There was no visible lock, but when Sofia tried to push it, it didn't give. It was locked from the inside."What's in there?" she asked Lena later, while the maid helped her get ready for dinner.Lena paused for an instant, the hairbrush suspended in the air."The east wing?" Her voice dropped lower. "Nothing, miss. Just old rooms. Mr. Marino doesn't like anyone going there.""Why?""I don't know." Lena lowered her eyes, but Sofia noticed she knew more than she let on. "I never asked."Sofia didn't insist. But curiosity,
Six months with the devil Chapter 15: The First Kiss
The following week passed like a dream from which Sofia couldn't wake. She continued to read in the library, to pray in her room, to walk through the mansion's corridors with the strange feeling that she was being watched, not by cameras or security guards, but by Tony. He didn't bother her, didn't try to get close. He was just there. In the small gestures: a fresh flower on the breakfast table, a new book left in her favorite chair in the library, the chef preparing the dishes she had mentioned she liked.It was a silent, patient, almost respectful courtship, and that frightened her more than any threat. Tony also took her to the olive garden every afternoon. It was the only place where he seemed truly at ease, where his armor fell away and he became just a man, speaking of his grandmother, his childhood, his regrets. Sofia listened in silence, responding with stories of the convent, of the peace she had found in prayer, of the fears she had faced when leaving the world.That afternoo
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Three days had passed since Sofia discovered the library, and it had become her refuge. Every morning, after breakfast, she climbed the stairs and lost herself among the shelves, reading about saints and sinners, about empires that crumbled and loves that survived time. It was the only place in the mansion where she didn't feel like a prisoner.Tony watched her from afar. He didn't bother her, didn't try to make conversation. He just appeared at the library door now and then, as if wanting to confirm she was still there, and then disappeared. There was something almost tender in that silent vigilance, and Sofia hated the fact that, little by little, she was beginning to get used to it.That morning, however, Tony didn't appear at the library. Instead, it was Lena who came to fetch her, with a mysterious smile on her lips."Mr. Marino asks that you meet him on the terrace, miss."Sofia frowned."Terrace?""Yes. On the top floor. He said he has something to show you."Sofia hesitated. T
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