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129. Negotiations.

Author: AlphaKelly
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-08-16 20:59:28

Luca's Pov

Sleep was hard to come by. I laid silently in the dark for a long time, hands interlocked behind my head. There was a lot to think about. Too much.

I feared for Dara but I knew I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't even dare.

What could I do anyway? Travel to Philadelphia, sneak into her house while her phony husband is away and tell her to run away with me? What reasons would I give? What proof? And even if I could provide proof, would she want to hear it from me? Would she even remember me?

Of course she would. The boy she'd taken under her wing. Taken as her second son. And he repaid her by killing her real son. Twelve years plus wasn't even close to enough time for one to forget such a thing.

She would never believe me. She hated me and it was best for both of us if our paths never crossed again for as long as we both lived.

Then there was Alex. I thought the soup was an olive branch. Much like mine. But it would seem his mind was made up on the
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