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Chapter 9

Author: Lola C
Alessandro’s POV

It was the dead of night, and Seraphina still hadn’t come home.

I dialed her number, only to be met with the cold automated message: The number you are calling is switched off.

For the first time ever, panic surged through me. I immediately sent men to the church to look for her, but all they found were the guards posted at the gate and an empty back door to the church.

My face darkened in an instant, and an overwhelming sense of dread coiled in the pit of my stomach.

I’d though
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    Just then, Alessandro’s phone rang.Cast aside all dignity, he sank to the ground and answered it, hitting the speaker without a second thought. That’s when I heard the urgent, panicked voice of his man on the other end: “Don, it’s a disaster! Several allied families have betrayed us out of nowhere. They’ve seized our key smuggling routes and killed some of our top lieutenants. The family is in complete chaos—we need you back at once to take control!”Alessandro froze stiff all over. I knew full well that when it came to the family, there was no time for hesitation for him.He was the Don of the De Luca family. He couldn’t turn his back on its fate, couldn’t let the family fall to ruin at his hands.Alessandro turned to me, his gaze brimming with regret, unwillingness and utter despair. Then he spun around and walked away from the villa gate, one slow, heavy step after another.His back was a lonely, desolate silhouette, etched with endless remorse and bitterness.Alessandro was gone.

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    The moment the door clicked shut, the knot in my chest loosened a little, yet I couldn’t stop my body from trembling slightly.Evan patted my back gently, his comfort silent and steady. The baby seemed to sense my unease, his tiny fingers curling softly around my blouse, letting out a soft, cooing whimper. My heart filled with warmth in an instant, and I bent down to kiss his forehead, a single thought blazing in my mind: No one will ever ruin my baby’s and my life.In the days that followed, I would catch sight of Alessandro’s figure through the window, time and again.He still knelt at the villa’s gate, motionless, like an abandoned statue.The wind in the town was bitter cold, cutting through the air and wrapping around him, yet he stayed there on his knees—from dawn till dusk, from night till morning, refusing food and water, never closing his eyes.Sometimes, the wind would carry his voice into the courtyard, calling my name over and over, whispering I’m sorry until his words were

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    I pulled myself together, my gaze still cold as I locked eyes with Alessandro, and said each word slowly and clearly: “What are you doing here? I don’t want to see you. Leave.”My voice was quiet, yet laced with an icy indifference that left no room for doubt.I knew I couldn’t back down this time. For my baby, for everything I’d fought so hard to build, I had to be brave—and push him away for good.“Seraphina…” His voice was hoarse and trembling, filled with abject helplessness and pleading. “I know I was wrong. I truly do. I’ve found out the whole truth. Bianca lied to me. I should have believed you, I shouldn’t have hurt you, shouldn’t have hurt our child. Please, forgive me. Give me a chance to make it right, please?”I stared at him, my eyes still cold, not a single flicker of emotion crossing my face.“Make it right?” I let out a bitter laugh, my tone sharp with sarcasm and exhaustion. “Alessandro, do you really think you can ever make this right? The pain you inflicted on me, on

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    I thought of Seraphina’s patience and the wrongs she’d endured, of how I’d sent her to that country villa to suffer, of how I’d forced her to work in a restaurant and endure humiliation, of the cold look in her eyes and the resolute set of her back the last time she left, of how she’d once asked me Do you love me? and I’d never had an answer for her.Regret crashed over me like a tidal wave, threatening to pull me under entirely.At long last, I saw how terribly, how utterly I’d been wrong.I’d thought I was upholding my duty, protecting the family’s name, but all the while, Bianca had been twisting me around her little finger. I’d been hurting the woman who loved me the most, the one who deserved all my cherish.I’d pushed Seraphina away with my own hands. I’d destroyed our marriage with my own hands. I’d driven her to the brink with my own hands.When Bianca learned the truth was out, she shook like a leaf. She tried to explain herself, to beg for my forgiveness, but by then, anger a

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