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CHAPTER 8 - THE THINGS PEOPLE DO FOR LOVE

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The Things Love Makes People Do for love

Ariana sat alone in her bedroom long after

midnight, the city lights of Bologna blinking faintly through the tall glass windows. The room smelled faintly of incense, not because she had lit any, but because memory itself had a scent. She lay on her silk-covered bed, staring at the ceiling,

replaying every glance Alejandro Rodriguez had ever given Valerie.

Not her.

Never her.

Her fingers curled slowly against the sheets. Ariana was not used to losing. She had grown up watching her mother bend rooms without raising her voice, watching men change decisions after a single conversation. Power had always flowed quietly in her family. You did not fight it. You redirected it.

Alejandro’s attention on Valerie was not a coincidence. Ariana knew that much. Desire was not logical, but it was malleable.

And if it could be redire
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