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The Auctioned Bride Chapter 171
Althea’s Pov I didn’t know where we were going. I only knew that Valerio’s hand was tight around mine and that the world behind us was burning…sirens, shouting, the echo of gunfire still ringing in my bones. My lungs burned as much from fear as from running, but he didn’t slow. Not once. Not until the road disappeared and the night swallowed us whole. When we finally stopped, it was because there was nowhere else to run. A narrow stretch of land opened before us…stone underfoot, salt in the air, the sound of water breathing somewhere below. The place felt forgotten. Untouched. Like it had been waiting for us. Valerio let go of my hand only to lock the door behind us. The small house…no, cabin…looked abandoned from the outside, but inside it was warm. Simple. Clean. A single lamp cast a soft glow across worn wood and white walls. Safe. I leaned against the door as soon as it closed, my legs finally giving in. He turned immediately. “Althea…” “I know,” I said quickly, pressing m
The Auctioned Bride Chapter 170
Valerio’s PovThe moment my lips crashed against hers, the world went silent.No guns.No shadows.No blood or fire or lies.Just her.Her hands fisted in my shirt like she was afraid I’d vanish if she let go. Like I was the only solid thing left in a world that had torn her apart brick by brick. I kissed her harder…not to silence her, but because I needed her to feel it. Needed her to know that whatever sins I carried, whatever monsters I’d helped create, this was real.When I finally pulled back, our foreheads rested together, breath tangled, uneven.“I thought I lost you,” I said hoarsely. “I watched them drag you away. I watched you scream my name and I…” My voice broke. I didn’t try to fix it. “I don’t survive that twice, Althea.”Her eyes shone, fierce and wet. Alive. God, she was alive.“You should have let me go,” she whispered, even as her fingers tightened again. “You should’ve walked away.”I gave a bitter laugh. “I was never capable of that. Not with you.”The wind howled
The Auctioned Bride Chapter 169
Althea’s PovThe wind nearly threw me off my feet.I didn’t stop running until the ground fell away in front of me…until the world ended in stone and open air and the sea roared far below like it was waiting to swallow everything I was. I moved to a halt at the cliff’s edge, chest heaving, lungs burning, fingers numb from cold and panic.“Stop!” Valerio’s voice tore through the wind behind me. “Althea…please.”I turned so fast my vision swam.“Don’t come any closer,” I shouted, tears stinging my eyes. “Just…just leave me alone.”He slowed, hands raised slightly, like I was a frightened animal who might bolt again. His clothes were torn, darkened with soot and blood. His breathing was rough. Uneven.“I won’t touch you,” he said hoarsely. “I swear. I just…don’t run. Not like this.”“You should’ve let me go back there,” I snapped. “You should’ve left me with them.”“No,” he said immediately. Too fast. Too sure. “Never.”I laughed, a broken sound that tore out of my chest. “You don’t get
The Auctioned Bride Chapter 168
Althea’s PovThe first thing I felt was air.Cold. Sharp. Real.It rushed into my lungs like I had been drowning and only just broken the surface. My eyes fluttered open, vision swimming, lights blurring into fractured halos. Everything hurt…my temples, my wrists, my chest. My body felt foreign, heavy, like it had been pulled apart and poorly stitched back together.Chains clinked when I moved.Memory slammed into me in pieces.White rooms.Needles.Screaming.My own voice begging Valerio over and over until it stopped sounding like a name and became a prayer.And then…Fire.Shouting. Gunshots. Italian curses barked with fury and desperation.My heart lurched painfully.Valerio.I turned my head weakly and saw him.Blood streaked down his arm, soaking into the sleeve of his jacket, but he was standing…no, raging…like a force that couldn’t be contained. Men lay unmoving on the floor around him. Machines sparked and smoked. The smell of burning metal and flesh clogged the air.For one
The Auctioned Bride Chapter 167
Valerio’s PovThe room smelled like smoke and blood.I hadn’t moved from the window in hours. The mansion glowed below me, cruel in its beauty, indifferent to the fact that the woman I loved had been taken apart somewhere in the dark like a broken thing.Marco burst in without knocking.I turned before he spoke. I felt it in my bones.“We found her,” he said, breathless. “Venice. An offshore facility. Old glassworks repurposed. Heavy security.”The world snapped back into focus.“Get the men,” I said, already reaching for my coat.“Don…” Marco stepped forward. “If we do this, there’s no going back. You’ve already burned bridges by leaking the Shadow files. This…this will be war.”I turned on him, fury raw and unfiltered.“They took her,” I roared. “They strapped her down like an animal. They put needles in her veins. They erased her life and dared to call it a project.”Marco swallowed.“Find the fastest route,” I continued, voice low now, lethal. “Anyone who stands between me and Alt
The Auctioned Bride Chapter 166
Althea’s PovI woke up screaming.The sound tore out of my chest before I even understood where I was, my throat raw as if I’d been crying for hours. My body jerked violently, but shackles snapped tight around my wrists and ankles, biting into my skin.Metal.Cold.The first thing I smelled was antiseptic…sharp, sterile, wrong. The second thing I noticed was the light. White. Blinding. It buzzed faintly above me, drilling straight into my skull.“No…no, no, no,” I whispered, my breath coming too fast.I tried to sit up. The shackles held.That’s when memory slammed into me.Gunshots.Glass shattering.People screaming.Valerio.My chest tightened painfully.He had been bleeding. I remembered the red spreading over his sleeve, the way his teeth had clenched as he fought to stay standing. I remembered him shouting my name like it was the only thing tethering him to the world.And Damien…My stomach twisted violently.Damien falling. The sound of his body hitting the floor. The look on h
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