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26. I Will Never Come Back To You

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Ella’s Point of View

The Venetian night draped the city in a heavy cloak, its canals glinting like liquid silver under the sparse glow of streetlamps, their reflections wavering like my fragile resolve. I stood in my cramped room at the Locanda Serenissima, my pulse racing as I zipped my backpack, its contents a lifeline—cash, a burner phone, a few clothes, and the antiemetics from yesterday’s pharmacy scare.

My escape was planned: a boat to the Santa Lucia train station, then a midnight train to Paris, where I could vanish, rebuild a life for me and my unborn child, far from Marcus’s grasp. The stress of hiding in Cannaregio, the nausea of my secret pregnancy, and the terror of Marcus’s $10,000 reward had pushed me to breaking, but I was ready. Paris was my salvation, a city vast enough to erase Clara Rossi.

I tucked my blonde, neck-length hair under a scarf, sunglasses stowed in my coat pocket, and scanned the room one last time. The bed was made, the shutters closed, the air tinge
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He really is a monster I hope her dad gets her before him
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