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Chapter 9
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2026-06-18 23:24:25
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I woke up this morning staring at the folder on my bedside table, which contained the contract and everything I needed to know about my father's businesses. The folder sat there like a threat.A future bound together by paper and signatures.A prison disguised as a solution.For three days I had stared at it.By noon today, he was coming to collect. That was what he had said.Noon.As if my entire life could be reduced to a deadline.I hated him for that.I hated myself more for considering it.My fingers brushed the edge of the folder.Then pulled away.I wasn't ready.A knock sounded at the door.Three sharp raps.I frowned, thinking it was him but Lorenzo never knocks. "Come in."The door opened.Vittoria De Luca stepped inside.Elegant as ever.Dangerous in the quiet way only De Lucas seemed capable of being.She closed the door behind her and looked around the room.Her gaze eventually landed on me.For a second I wondered if Lorenzo was aware that she was in my room. "I hope
THE DE LUCA BARGAIN Chapter 11
I should have signed the contract.The thought had followed me for three days.Three long days of staring at document I hated.Three days of convincing myself I still had a choice.Three days of pretending the future wasn’t closing around me.The knock on my door came shortly after noon.A maid entered carrying garment bags.Two more followed behind her.Then another.And another.My eyes narrowed.“What is all this?”The first maid carefully placed the bags across the bed.“Dresses, Miss Moretti.”I hated that name now.It felt like a ghost.A reminder of a family that no longer existed.“Why?”The women exchanged a look.Then one finally answered.“The annual gathering.”I frowned.“What gathering?”A pause.“The De Luca gathering.”I froze, Of course.The gathering.For two years I had watched the estate transform for it.Servants rushing through hallways.Security tripled.Convoys arriving from every corner of New York.The entire system shifting into something ceremonial.I had n
THE DE LUCA BARGAIN Chapter 10
I didn’t trust silence anymore.Not in this house.Not around him.Silence meant decisions had already been made without me.And I was usually the last to know what they were.I sat across from Lorenzo in a room, I wondered why this room, which he called the pact room, was only used for new allies.It was just a long table, polished too perfectly, and the kind of quiet that presses against your skin until you start questioning your own thoughts.Lorenzo sat opposite me.Relaxed in a way that never actually meant relaxed.His attention was on me, but not in the way I used to think attention worked.The Lorenzo from the attack was gone.The one who asked if I was hurt.This was the one who survived wars by turning emotion off completely.I hated how quickly I recognized the difference.He slid a single document onto the table.No explanation.Just that.I didn’t touch it.Not yet.“I assume you’ve thought about it,” he said.Not a question.Never a question.I leaned back slightly, forc
THE DE LUCA BARGAIN Chapter 9
I spent the entire night hating him.Not because of the proposal.Because of how reasonable it sounded.That was the worst part.The same man who had once called me his dumb plaything now wanted to marry me.The same man who had reduced me to a joke in front of his men now sat behind a desk offering me his name.As if the last two years had never happened.As if words didn't leave scars.If Lorenzo had threatened me, I could have hated him.If he had forced me, I could have resisted.But he hadn't done either.He had simply laid the facts in front of me and waited.As if my future were some business deal to be negotiated.As if marriage were nothing more than another contract.As if I weren't the woman being asked to surrender the rest of her life.Sleep never came.Every time I closed my eyes, I heard those words again."Dumb plaything."My chest tightened.Because despite everything, despite the humiliation and anger and betrayal, a part of me had still loved him.And maybe that was
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I didn't sleep.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw blood.Roderick's blood.His broken body hit the floor.The sound of the gunshot.The whisper that followed.I still don't know if you're innocent.The words had followed me back to my room.They sat beside me in the darkness.Waited for me in the silence.Reminded me that despite everything, I was still a suspect.Still a prisoner.Still trapped.I shouldn’t have run. I shouldn’t have tried to escape at all.That’s what started all of this. That’s why everything is falling apart.People are dying because of me.The thought made me sick.Because it was too late for regrets.Regrets didn't open locked doors, didn't bring the dead back.It certainly didn't save women like me.The knock came shortly after noon.Not midnight this time.Not another secret meeting in a basement.Or another execution.Just a knock.Three sharp raps against the door.Then a guard entered."The boss wants you downstairs."My stomach tightened immediately.Agai
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I should have run when I had the chance.Not weeks ago.Not months ago.Two years ago.Before I learned the layout of his mansion.Before I learned the sound of his footsteps.Before I learned that Lorenzo De Luca could be more terrifying when he was silent than when he was angry.The memories came easier these days.Like ghosts refusing to stay buried.Every corner of this room reminded me of another room.Every locked door reminded me of the first time I'd tried to escape.The first time I'd failed.Back then, I'd still believed there was a version of this story where I won.Now I knew better.Because this wasn't two years ago.It wasn't the beginning.It was the end.I was back in Lorenzo's cage.Back under his cameras.Back under his control.And every passing day felt like a countdown to something I couldn't stop.Death, punishment, maybe revenge.I wasn't sure which one terrified me more.I had stopped counting the days.At first, I scratched them into my memory.One day.Three
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