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Chapter 65: Victoria

Author: Cold Storm
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-07 01:29:45

The apartment listings were spread across my small kitchen table like a roadmap to independence.

I'd been staring at them for an hour, circling possibilities and calculating distances to the gallery.

"You're doing this," I said aloud to the space.

The apartment Ace provided was beautiful—spacious, elegantly furnished, and in one of Rome's most desirable neighborhoods.

Everything a woman starting over could want.

Except it wasn't mine.

None of it belonged to me.

The furniture, the expensive linens, even the coffee in the kitchen—all gifts from a man who meant well but didn't understand that charity, however kindly intended, still felt like charity.

I needed something that was mine.

Something I'd earned with my own hands.

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The gallery had been busier than usual this week.

Giulia had noticed my improved sales numbers and given me a raise that made real independence possible for the first time since I'd woken up in that hospital bed.

"You have a gift for this," she'd said yesterday, wa
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