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The questions they had answers to

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last update 게시일: 2026-10-31 19:00:00

They came for me at the estate at nine in the morning, two detectives in plain clothes and a uniformed officer standing stiffly by the door, the kind of visit dressed up as routine that we both knew wasn't routine at all.

"Ms. Romano. We'd like you to come down to the station. A few questions, given the events of last night."

I went without resistance. Fighting it would only have made whatever they already suspected look truer than it wa

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  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    The last page

    "My mother is alive," I said."Is she?" Valentina tilted her head, almost kind. "When did you last hear her voice?"The chapel went very cold. I tried to remember and couldn't. Before the gala. Before the dancing."Don't touch it," Matteo said, low, at my ear. His hand slid to my waist and stayed there, warm and certain."Don't look at her," Dante said from my other side. He stepped half in front of me, his fingers finding my jaw, turning my face toward his. His eyes were dark and steady in the candlelight. "Look at me. Whatever's in that book, you decide what it means. Not her."My father hadn't moved. His head was bowed, his shoulders shaking. The revolver lay on the stone beside his knee.I took the diary.The leather was soft with age, the cover warm from Valentina's hands. My mother's handwriting looped across the first page, the slanted *R* I'd copied as a child. I turned to the end.The last entry was dated four days ago.*If you are reading this, Isabella, then I have run out

  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    Three men,one clock

    Nobody spoke in the car. Dante sat across from me, Matteo beside me, and the space between the three of us felt like a room with no windows.At the safehouse, Renata took one look at us and quietly left."You're bleeding," I said to Dante."I'm not.""Your wrist."He held it out without argument. I fetched the kit and sat on the arm of his chair, and for a moment the only sound was the tear of gauze. The cuff had rubbed the skin raw. I cleaned it slowly. His eyes never left my face."Does it hurt?" I asked."Not the way you mean."My hands stilled. Across the room, Matteo had gone quiet against the window, arms folded, jaw tight. Dante's thumb found the inside of my wrist and rested there, right over my pulse."It's racing," he murmured."I've had a long week.""That isn't why.""Falcone." Matteo's voice was soft and very dangerous. "She's tending your wound. Not offering you her heart.""I know what she's offering." Dante didn't look away from me. "That's what unsettles me.""Enough,

  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    The man who raised her

    I didn't sleep. Matteo didn't ask me to. He sat beside me on the edge of the safehouse bed with his shirt half-buttoned, and every time my hands started shaking he laid his over them without a word."I'm going to see my father," I said at dawn."I'm coming.""You've told me enough lies for one week.""Then watch me tell you the truth." He stood and held out my coat, close enough that his knuckles grazed my collarbone. "I'm not letting you walk into that room alone."His hand stayed at the small of my back all the way down the stairs. I let it.---The clinic was quiet and white and smelled of antiseptic. My father sat upright in bed, an IV in his arm, looking older than I had ever seen him. When I walked in, he didn't say my name. He looked at the floor."The message said you hired her," I said."Isabella.""Say it."His eyes closed. "Twenty years ago, Dante's father ruined a girl's family to protect his own. I watched it happen. I did nothing." His voice cracked. "Years later, she ca

  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    What he never said

    Falco took my father to a private clinic, still staring at Matteo the whole way out. I should have gone with him. Instead I drove Matteo to the safehouse Renata kept for emergencies, because he was bleeding through his shirt and refused to admit it."Sit," I said."Yes, ma'am.""Don't."He sat on the edge of the bed, tired and almost smiling. I knelt with the first-aid kit, soaked a cloth, and pressed it to the split in his lip. He held perfectly still. His eyes never left my face."You're angry," he said."I'm deciding how angry.""Take your time."I peeled the torn shirt from his shoulders. A long bruise ran across his ribs, purple against warm skin. My fingers stopped there. I hadn't meant them to."Isabella." His voice dropped. "If you keep touching me like that, I won't be able to confess properly.""Then confess."He exhaled. "That summer, I was nineteen. My father sent me to your estate to watch your family. I told myself it was an errand." His jaw tightened. "He'd been bleedin

  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    The Choice she built

    "You have two hours," Valentina said. "Come alone. The Falcone Grand Hotel, the sub-basement beneath the old wine cellar. The fourth exit your people swore nobody knew."My blood went cold. Only seven people had seen that map."Marchetti," I said."Dear, loyal Marchetti. When you arrive, one of them walks out with you. The other stays. I never got to choose who I lost. I thought you might enjoy it."The screen went black."It's a trap," Ricci said."Obviously." I replayed the last seconds on Matteo's phone with her voice muted. "She wanted me watching her face. So I'm listening to everything else."On the third pass I heard it under Matteo's breathing: iron dragged over stone, then a ferry horn, two notes."The hotel is six miles from the water," Falco said."She's sending me to the wrong building." I put Renata on speaker. "Which terminal rings twice?""Pier Four. There's a sealed customs house behind it.""Dante's orders were to keep you out of this," Falco said carefully."Dante's

  • THE DON'S WIFE LEFT HIM FOR HIS RIVAL    A Name That Was Never Mine

    I read the message twice. The second time, I didn't breathe.*Your name is on the incorporation papers.*Marchese watched my face the way I'd once watched Esposito's, hunting for the texture of a lie. So I did the one thing I hadn't done all morning. I stopped controlling my expression, and slid the phone across the table.He read it. His jaw went still. "Aurelia Transport. Incorporated eleven months ago. Your signature is on the filing.""I never signed it. Compare it to my marriage contract. Look at the loop on the R."The door opened. Dante's lawyer stood there, breathless. "My client hasn't been charged. On what basis is she being held?""I was just reaching the same question." Marchese pushed the phone back to me. "I can't stop you leaving, Ms. Romano. And I never told you the company's address is Magazzino Nine, at the old port. I'll be a long way behind you. Try not to make me regret it."---The lawyer caught my arm in the corridor. "Two minutes. He's downstairs. I can't ask t

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