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CHAPTER 32: Falling  

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last update publish date: 2026-02-14 11:12:41

CHAPTER 32: Falling

Isabella

Three weeks had passed since the Bratva trap—three weeks of careful planning, heightened security, and a shift in Isabella's relationship with Dante that terrified her more than any assassination threat.

She was falling in love with him.

No—that wasn't quite right. She'd already fallen. Past tense. Completely, irrevocably, devastatingly in love with a man who'd bought her like property and claimed her like a possession.

And the worst part? He kept doing things that
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