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Chapter 29: Vanessa

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Aria's bathroom was warm and steamy from the hot water. I tested the temperature with my elbow before lowering her into the tub.

She splashed happily, her earlier fussiness forgotten. Water went everywhere, soaking my shirt, but I didn't care.

This was peace. This was simple. This was real.

"You like your bath, don't you, sweetheart?"

She babbled something that sounded like agreement, slapping the water with her palms.

I was reaching for her towel when Alessandro appeared in the doorway.

"Need help?"

"I've got it."

"I know you do. But let me help anyway."

He moved into the small space, his presence filling the room. I could smell his cologne, feel the warmth radiating from his skin.

"Lift her," he said, holding out the towel.

I scooped Aria from the tub, and he wrapped her in the soft pink towel, pulling her against his chest.

"There's my clean girl," he murmured, pressing a kiss to her damp hair.

We moved to her nursery, working in comfortable silence. He held her while
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    Alessandro continued talking, his voice steady but strained.Like he was forcing himself to get through a painful story.“When I found out you were a spy, I told you to leave.”“You told me to leave?”“I discovered your real identity. That you weren’t really a nanny, that you’d been sent to infiltrate my home.”I tried to grasp at the fragments of memory, but they slipped away like water.“How did you find out?”“My security team uncovered your background. Your real training, your mission.”The words hit me with a strange sense of familiarity.Like an echo of a conversation I’d almost had in a dream.“What was my mission?”“To gather intelligence on my business operations. To get close to me and report back to your handlers.”Alessandro stood up, pacing again.“I felt betrayed. Used. Everything between us felt like a lie.”“Was it a lie?”“That’s what I believed at the time. I couldn’t see past the deception to understand that your feelings had become real.”He stopped pacing and look

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    The dream felt too real.Too vivid.Too much like a memory instead of imagination.Alessandro’s face twisted with betrayal and rage.His voice cold as winter when he’d pointed toward the door.“Get out. I never want to see you again.”And me, standing there with tears streaming down my face, trying to explain something I couldn’t even remember.Trying to make him understand why I’d—What had I done?In the dream, I knew exactly what I’d done wrong.But now, jerking awake in our bed, the details scattered like smoke.All that remained was the crushing weight of guilt and the echo of Alessandro’s voice telling me to leave.“Victoria?”Alessandro’s real voice, warm and concerned, pulled me back to the present.His arm tightened around my waist, pulling me closer to his warmth.“What’s wrong? You’re shaking.”I was shaking.My whole body was trembling like I was cold, even though the bedroom was perfectly warm.“Bad dream,” I managed.“About what?”I turned in his arms, needing to see his

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    Aria’s bedtime routine felt different tonight.More meaningful somehow.The three of us were reading stories together in her room, Alessandro’s deep voice mixing with mine as we took turns with different characters.Aria’s sleepy questions about whether tomorrow would be different now that we were “really married.”“Everything will be the same, sweetheart,” I’d assured her, tucking the covers under her chin. “Except maybe Papa and I will be even happier.”“Good,” she’d murmured, already drifting off. “I like it when you’re happy.”After we’d kissed her goodnight and closed her door, I’d started walking toward my room out of habit.The room I’d been using for months.The safe space where I’d retreated when things got complicated.But Alessandro’s hand caught mine before I reached the door.“Where are you going?”“To get ready for bed.”“Victoria.” His voice was gentle but firm. “That’s not your room anymore.”I turned to face him, heart suddenly racing.“It’s not?”“Our room is down th

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    The past two weeks had been a dream I never wanted to wake up from.Alessandro had transformed into the most attentive husband imaginable.Fresh flowers appeared in every room of the penthouse daily.Breakfast in bed had become our morning ritual, complete with handwritten notes telling me how beautiful I looked even with bedhead.He’d canceled business meetings to take me shopping for a new wedding dress.Not because the first one hadn’t been perfect, but because he wanted me to have something chosen purely for joy.“This time,” he’d said, holding my hand as we walked through Rome’s most exclusive bridal boutiques, “I want you to feel like the princess you are.”Princess treatment.That’s what Giulia had called it when I’d finally told her everything.“You look like a woman who’s been thoroughly spoiled,” she’d said, studying my face across her desk at the gallery.“Is it that obvious?”“You’re glowing. Actually glowing. Like you’ve been lit from the inside.”I’d told her about Aless

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    Three weeks.For three weeks, Alessandro had been courting me like we were dating instead of married.Breakfast in bed every morning, delivered with fresh flowers and that devastating smile.Dinner reservations at restaurants I’d mentioned wanting to try.Small gifts that showed he’d been paying attention to things I’d said weeks ago.A book by an author I’d loved.Tea from the shop where I’d bought my favorite blend.Earrings that matched a dress he’d seen me admire in a boutique window.All of it was designed to show me I mattered.That he was sorry.That he wanted to earn back my trust.I’d forgiven him days ago, if I were honest.The moment I’d seen him with Aria that morning, when she’d asked if we loved each other and he’d answered without hesitation.When he’d been gentle with my hurt instead of defensive about his secrets.When he’d given me space to process while making it clear he wasn’t giving up.But I wasn’t ready to let him off the hook completely.Alessandro De Luca was

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