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The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 550
POV: Matteo"She is gone, Don Matteo! Her launch, her father's compass, and the seal ring from her grandfather's own hand. She left me a note, and it is only four words long."I am Matteo, and Renzo Valdez burst through the council doors with his hair wild and his shirt half buttoned, and the whole room turned. It was seven in the morning. We had barely stopped staring at the hidden stamp. The wet ink still shone on Corvin's fingertip. Now the shipwright stood panting in the doorway, a crumpled paper in his fist."Slowly, boy," I said. "Who is gone?""Sofia." He crossed the room in three strides and thrust the paper at me. "I went to the pilot's quay at dawn to bring her bread. Her launch was not at the mooring. Her grandfather has locked himself in the study again, and the maid says he has not slept. The silver gull cushion is on the floor, torn open. And this was nailed to her chart room door."I read it. The handwriting was small, neat, desperate.I am buying him back.My heart lur
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 549
POV: Isabella"I will tell you the truth about your father, Tomas, and then you may hate me for as long as you like. I promise I will not argue."I am Isabella, and I said it standing in the council office at six the next morning, with the gray light just beginning to creep through the windows. My eyes were swollen from lack of sleep. In my fist I held a small brass key, warm from my own palm. Tomas sat across the long table, his face stone still. Dario and Corvin stood beside him. Matteo, against every doctor's order, had insisted on a chair by the wall, wrapped in a blanket, with Tobias glaring at anyone who dared to suggest he return to bed."I helped your father fake his death," I said. "Thirty years ago. He had been skimming the old Don's accounts to buy medicine for you, Tomas. You were a small child, and you were sick. The Don's men were coming for him. I wrote a lie in a record and sent him away on a boat with a purse and a promise never to return."Tomas's hands closed into f
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 548
POV: Matteo"One more night like last night and I will tie you to that bed myself, Don Matteo. Your heart is counting down, and you keep arguing with the clock."I am Matteo, and the small, furious doctor who said it stood at the foot of my bed with her arms crossed and her spectacles slipping down her nose. It was nine in the evening. The lamp beside me hissed. My chest felt like a drum that somebody had stuffed with wet sand, and every breath came in two pieces."Dr. Fenn," I said weakly. "I was only on a pier.""You were on a pier for four hours. You stood in the wind. You hid behind a boathouse door like a schoolboy." She snapped her bag shut. "Your pulse is a bird in a box. I am telling you plainly. If you keep this up, you will not need an enemy.""Then tell me what I may do.""Lie down. Breathe. Do not think about conspiracies." She leveled a finger at me. "And do not, under any circumstance, let that woman give you bad news tonight.""Which woman?""The one at the door, who ha
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 547
POV: Isabella"You trusted me with the audit, Isabella, so I will trust you with the thing I was too afraid to say. Bertrand wrote a name in the margin. It was not a name I expected."I am Isabella, and Corvin sat across from me in the dim records room with a stack of ledgers between us, his ink stained hands folded like a boy waiting to be punished. It was late afternoon. Behind him, a high window let in a single bar of yellow light. Dust floated through it, slow and gold. Dario stood by the door, arms crossed, saying nothing."Start with the key," I said."Yes. The key." Corvin took a breath. "Three winters ago, Adriana lent me Tomas's key for one evening. I told her it was for the audit. That was half true.""Which half?""The half where I wanted to see the stamp. I had noticed something odd in the old notices, but I could not prove it without comparing the impressions side by side." He pushed a ledger toward me. "I took the stamp to my own desk, pressed it into wax, and returned i
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 546
POV: Matteo"Marry me for the city if you must, Renzo Valdez, but never look at me with pity. I would rather you hated me. Hate I know how to carry."I am Matteo, and I stood in the shadow of an old boathouse door, trying to look like a man who was not listening. It was ten in the morning, and the sky over the harbor had turned the clear, hard blue that comes after a long storm. Tobias leaned beside me, arms folded, grinning. Dr. Fenn had allowed me one hour out of bed and not a minute more.Inside, among the upturned hulls and coils of tarred rope, Sofia Lorenzi faced Renzo with her chin lifted. She had come alone. He had come with a bucket of nails. Between them, an old workbench served as a table."I do not pity you," Renzo said."You looked at me with pity yesterday.""I looked at you with respect. It is easy to confuse the two when you are used to getting neither." He put down the bucket. "Sofia, can I be honest?""Please. Everyone else is lying.""I do not want to marry a city.
The Don's Ruthless Empire chapter 545
POV: Isabella"If I show you this, you will use it. If I hide it, my father may die. Tell me which sin is smaller, Isabella, because I have run out of ways to decide."I am Isabella, and Sofia Lorenzi stood in my doorway at midnight, soaked to the skin, with a leather case clutched against her chest like a shield. Rain dripped from her hair onto the stone floor. She had come on foot, alone, across the whole slick length of the harbor road. Behind her, the lamps of the quay trembled in the dark."Come in," I said. "Before you catch your death.""I do not care about my death.""I do. Come in, Sofia."She stepped inside. I wrapped her in a blanket and sat her by the fire, and for a few minutes neither of us said anything. The wood popped. Matteo slept in the next room, finally, after Dr. Fenn had threatened to sit on him. I could hear his slow, shallow breathing through the wall."Drink this."She wrapped both hands around the cup. They shook. "My grandfather does not know I am here. He
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