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Chapter 10: Vanessa

Author: Cold Storm
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-04 21:00:22

The nursery felt different in the afternoon light.

More intimate. More dangerous.

I'd been organizing Aria's clothes for the past hour, trying to keep my hands busy while my mind raced. Every sound in the penthouse made me jump. Every shadow seemed to hold threats.

But it was the mundane task of folding tiny onesies that led me to discovery.

My fingers brushed against something that didn't belong. Hidden beneath a stack of Aria's sleepers, wedged against the back of the drawer, was a manila folder.

My heart hammered as I pulled it free.

The folder was thin but heavy with secrets. On the front, written in elegant script, was a single name: *Isabella.*

I shouldn't open it.

Every instinct screamed at me to put it back, to pretend I'd never found it. Alessandro's rules echoed in my mind: *You don't go places you don't belong.*

But my fingers were already lifting the cover.

The first page nearly stopped my heart.

It was a photograph. Not the wedding photo I'd expected, but somet
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