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Chapter 116: The Distance She Keeps
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2026-06-16 16:12:36
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The conversation from the previous evening lingered long after everyone, even Andre, had gone to bed. Lorenzo found himself thinking about it the following morning while standing on the terrace with a cup of hot coffee in his hand. The vineyards stretched across the landscape beneath a pale sky, still carrying traces of dawn. Somewhere beyond those rows of vines were the places Lucia had stood. The thought returned to him repeatedly, refusing to leave.She had come back again and again. Not once. Not twice. Dozens of times.And each time she had turned away, that realization made it difficult to hold on to all the old certainties he already has. For years Lorenzo had built explanations around her absence because they were easier than questions. Anger was easier than uncertainty. Resentment was even way easier than wondering whether someone had been suffering just as much as he had.Now those explanations were beginning to crack. When he entered the dining room later that morning, he d
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 116: The Distance She Keeps
The image remained frozen on the monitor long after the recording had ended. Everyone stayed exactly as they were, nobody seemed eager to move. The security officer eventually glanced toward Marco, silently asking whether he should continue reviewing footage, but Marco shook his head but there was no point, they had already found what it was looking for. Lucia had been there, over and over again, year after year and somehow that truth felt heavier than any of them had expected. The security room slowly emptied out as the evening settled over the estate. The monitors were switched off one by one until only a single screen remained illuminated. Lorenzo stayed back longer than everyone else, staring at the last frozen frame before finally following the others back to the main house. Dinner that night was unusually quiet, even Matteo seemed to sense that something had changed. Normally he would have filled every silence with stories about school, Bruno's adventures, or whatever new
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Early the next morning, on Marco's orders, security footage was pulled up and reviewed. Marco, now certain that there was definitely something going on, approached the task with the same relentless determination he brought to every problem because if Lucia had truly been near the estate for as long as Matteo seemed to believe, then there had to be evidence and he was going to find it.The villa's security cameras covered far more ground than most people realized. From between the main gates, the perimeter roads, the vineyards and the wooded areas surrounding the property, years of recordings had accumulated within the security system.And this made what was meant to be a simple search turn into something far more tedious. For hours on end, the monitors displayed nothing of importance. Employees came and went. Delivery trucks arrived at the gates. Rain swept across the vineyards. Gardeners worked among the hedges. Birds landed on fences. Entire afternoons passed without a single discov
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The room fell silent. It wasn't the comfortable silence of a family gathering or the thoughtful pause that followed a difficult conversation, it was the kind of silence that arrived when nobody knew what to say next.Matteo, completely unaware of the storm he had just unleashed, just sat cross-legged on the living room rug with his toys scattered all around him.Andre sat frozen in his chair while Lorenzo and Isabella sat side by side near the fireplace. Marco leaned against the far wall and every pair of their eyes had settled on Matteo."What?" Matteo asked, looking at them intently oblivious of what was happening.Still, nobody answered."Why are you all looking at me like that?" He frowned.Andre was the first to recover."When you said Grandma spoke to you again..." He began gently."Uh-huh." He nodded, looking up at him"...what exactly did you mean?""What do you mean?" The boy blinked."When did she speak to you?" Andre asked, rubbing his head in exhaustion."We spoke yesterda
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The map became the most talked-about subject in the villa although not openly for the next coming days, it lingered in the background of every conversation all the same. Even Lorenzo still found himself thinking about it at the strangest moments, while reviewing reports in his office and walking through the gardens, the realization refused to leave him because for years, he had believed Lucia's absence was a simple thing.He had built the foundation of his entire childhood, believing this and now that foundation was cracking. The thought unsettled him more than he wanted to admit because sincerely, he no longer knew what was going on. And that morning, as if seeking relief from the raging thoughts in his head, he wandered outside the villa.Outside, the weather was unusually pleasant as if it was trying to take a break from the incessant downpour of the last few days. Sunlight spilled into the vineyards, turning the rolling fields into waves of gold and green. Somewhere in the dista
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For the rest of the morning, the photograph stayed resting in Lorenzo's pocket all day. Isabella was so dumbstruck she could barely say a word, she just put it in his hand, turned around and walked away. He should have left it in the study or probably put it back into Dante's box where it had been found and forgotten about it. Instead, he found himself taking it out repeatedly, staring at it for a few seconds, then putting it away again as though the answers might somehow appear if he looked long enough.The photograph itself wasn't what bothered him, it was the writing. He had even shown it to Marco who stood all surprised as well, he had no idea stuff like that existed.Keep an eye on her.It was just five words but they had managed to make Dante feel unfamiliar all over again. Lorenzo now stood alone on the terrace overlooking the vineyards with his coffee untouched beside him. The morning sun had already climbed high enough in the sky to burn away the last traces of fog, leaving
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