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The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 11
By the time Luca was shown to the door, his face had gone cold.Moretti had not risen out of the gambling rooms and dock warehouses of New York by luck. Luca had taken territory, swallowed smaller crews, and lowered his head when the council doors were closed to him. He knew how to lose, and he knew how to come back from it.But this time was different.I looked at him calmly. "Mr. Moretti, if you want to enter a Castellano property again, send a formal request first."Luca did not leave right away.His eyes moved from my face to Lucien, then finally to the ring on my finger. The De Santis ring sat cold and heavy at the base of my hand, a result no one in this room could undo."You really married him?" he asked quietly."Yes.""To punish me?"I shook my head."To end us."The door closed behind him.For a moment, the house was quiet except for the low crackle of the fire. Then my father came out of the study and placed a file on the long table. He did not ask whether I was hurt. He did
The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 10
Luca's face went pale.He looked at me as if the last three years were rearranging themselves in his head all at once: why I had never tried to impress the Castellanos, why I did not need to recite the names of guards and servants the way Vanessa did, why I had never bothered to explain my place in this house.Because this house had always been mine.Luca was not stupid. He was only arrogant. He had convinced himself that the wedding kept being delayed because Moretti was not ready, because the timing was wrong, because one more permit or one more council dinner might finally make him untouchable. Now he was standing in my family's sitting room, realizing the door he had spent years trying to reach had been open the entire time. He had simply left the key in an apartment in New York.He had been that close to formal recognition from the Five Families.And he had spent his patience, his attention, and his tenderness on Vanessa.Vanessa said she knew the estate, and he believed her. Vane
The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 9
Luca's hand went still.His eyes moved from Lucien's face to the red mark his fingers had left around my wrist. For a moment, his expression turned ugly, but in the end, he let go.Not because he wanted to. Because even Luca Moretti knew the De Santis name was not something Moretti could challenge in a Castellano sitting room.Vanessa stood beside him, pale and silent. I could almost see the calculation falling apart behind her eyes. She had expected to walk into this house with Luca beside her, borrow my family's weight for one evening, and leave before anyone important noticed.Luca forced himself to look away from my wrist. When he spoke, his voice was cold. "Mr. De Santis, this is between Selene and me."Lucien removed his glove slowly and handed it to the man behind him. "Not since she signed the De Santis registry."The room went quiet.Luca's eyes sharpened. "Registry?"Alfred stepped to my side with a dark leather folder in his hands. His posture was as proper as ever, his voic
The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 8
I watched the color drain from Vanessa's face.She stared at me as if I had walked out of a locked room instead of down the stairs. Her hand tightened around the edge of her purse, and for a second, all the careful sweetness she wore in front of Luca disappeared."What are you doing here?" Her voice came out strained. "I told you to stay at the apartment and wait for the document."I stopped on the last step and looked at her."Do I need your permission to come home?"Vanessa's face stiffened. She reached for Luca at once, fingers closing around his sleeve. "Luca, let's step outside. I need to explain something."Luca did not move. His eyes stayed on me.I walked into the sitting room and sat down across from them. The black fabric of my dress settled over the carpet, and the emerald bracelet on my wrist caught the firelight with a cold green flash. I did not explain myself. I did not need to."What are you doing here?" I asked.Vanessa forced a smile. "Selene, Luca only wanted to meet
The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 7
After the call ended, Vanessa stood on the terrace with the phone still in her hand. The sea wind lifted the thin strap of her white dress against her shoulder, but she did not move. For a few seconds, the smile on her face stayed exactly where it was, stiff and unnatural.Luca came out of the bedroom with his shirt half-buttoned, his hair still damp from the shower. He glanced at her, then at the dark screen in her palm."Who were you talking to?"Vanessa blinked and quickly turned the phone face down on the table. "Selene. I was asking if the southern-route document had arrived."Luca did not answer right away.He had heard something on the other end of the call. Not enough to accuse her of anything, but enough to make him uncomfortable. Selene's voice had been too soft, too close to someone else. It was not the voice of a woman sitting alone in his apartment, waiting for him to come back.For a moment, the thought stayed with him.Then he pushed it down.He picked up his phone and s
The Delayed Wedding: I Refuse It Chapter 6
That night, I sat in a suite under the De Santis name, looking at the registration papers I had signed only hours earlier. I stared at them longer than I should have.Luca had kept me waiting for three years with one "after this" after another. Lucien De Santis had taken less than a day to put everything on paper.When the door opened, I looked up.Lucien came in without his jacket, dressed only in a black shirt with the sleeves rolled to his forearms. Two buttons were undone at the collar. Without the formal coat and the witnesses around him, he looked less distant than he had in my father's sitting room, but not any less dangerous.His eyes moved to the papers in my hand."Still checking if it's real?"I didn't answer.He watched me for a second, then set his watch on the bedside table. The metal clasp clicked softly against the wood.Before I could respond, my phone rang.Vanessa.I looked at the name for a few seconds before answering.Her face appeared on the screen. She was weari
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