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Chapter 8

Auteur: Iris Vale
Dante's POV:

After the video cut off, I kept staring at the screen.

Sophia's face was so pale it almost blended into the pillow.

If it hadn't been for the numbers changing on the monitor, I wouldn't even have known she was alive.

For the past few days, I'd kept telling myself that keeping Sophia in New York was the safest choice.

But Evelyn had defied my orders, taken our daughter, and pulled a hundred million dollars out of my business.

I should have been furious, but now I couldn't deny that E
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    Evelyn's POV:Seven years had passed, and he was taller than I remembered. At nearly six foot three, he even stood above Dante.His dark hair fell carelessly over his forehead. There was a faint new scar over his left brow, and his shoulders had grown broader.Only those gray-green eyes hadn't changed."Every one of Savino's men has been dealt with. No one gets onto this floor without my permission.""Did Dante send you?"Renzo was silent for a moment."He agreed to hand over Palermo if the rescue failed, but Corrado was watching his planes the whole time. If he'd left New York himself, you and Sophia would have been killed immediately."Florian had injured his right arm during the firefight and wouldn't be able to work for a while.Luckily, the rest of the transplant team was alive. Sophia's heart rate had spiked from the fright, but her new heart showed no sign of rejection or other trouble.Seven hours later, Dante arrived in Zurich.Dante walked into the ward looking grim. His eyes

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