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Chapter 85: Darkness Makes People Honest
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The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 158: The Cost of Ricci
They brought Ricci back to the villa under guard, not to the reinforced room at the edge of the property where Ferro had died, but to a smaller room adjacent to the study. It had been Lorenzo's choice, deliberate, he needed him close enough that he could watch the man himself instead of leaving it to concrete walls and a bulb that hummed indifferently overhead. Marco noticed the choice before anyone said a word about it. "So you want him near the house," Marco said, once Ricci had been secured and the door closed between them. "After everything?" "Yes. I want him where I can see what he actually is," Lorenzo said. "Not what fear makes him look like in the dark." Marco's jaw tightened, and Lorenzo recognized, in the stillness that settled over his old friend, the same tension that had never fully resolved since the night the bulb hummed over Ferro's slumped body. Neither of them had really spoken about it since. It had simply sat between them, working, cooperating but never quite he
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 157:What the Architect Built
The rotation broke at 2:47 a.m., exactly as predicted. Lorenzo moved silently through the gap with two of Marco's men. The guard at the side entrance was already down before he knew what hit him. Inside, the corridor smelled of cold electronics and recycled air as servers hummed behind a locked door at the rear, cables running in neat black rivers along the baseboards — the structure made physical, just the way Lucia had described it. Marco's voice came low through the earpiece. "The second guard has been neutralized. We're clear to the server room." They weren't. The door at the end of the hallway opened before Lorenzo reached it. Ricci stood in the frame, unarmed, hands loose at his sides, like a man who had waited for this very moment so many times that arriving at it finally felt almost like relief. "You were faster than I expected," he said. "Or she's better than I remembered." Lorenzo didn't lower his weapon. "Where's the trap?" "You're standing in it." Ricci step
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 156:The Trap in the Trap
That night, Lucia couldn't sleep a wink. Instead, she sat at the kitchen table long after midnight, the villa had gone quiet around her, a single lamp burning low, as she turned the day's plan over in her mind. From Marco's photographs to the rotation of guards. The server room was still visible through a side window that had been left slightly too easy to see. She was still sitting there when Lorenzo found her. "You're still here when you should be resting?" he asked. "So should you." He pulled out the chair across from her instead of arguing, and sat down and for a moment neither of them spoke. She studied his face, it was steadier than it had been at the desk that morning, but still carried the tightness of a man who had already committed himself to something and was only now allowing himself to feel the weight of it until he achieved it.. "I think something's wrong," she said. "I've felt it since Sofia found that IP address." "The team's confirmed everything. Guards,
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 155: Following the Money
Isabella found Lorenzo in the study with three lit-up screens open where there had been one the night before. He hadn't slept. She could tell by how still he sat. "You should eat." "I know…I'll do that later." "You said that yesterday." He didn't answer. She recognized the change that had happened overnight — the man who'd fed his mother's bread to Matteo and kept laughing until his shoulders shook, was gone. What sat behind the desk now was the version of him she'd first met with a gun in his hand. "Lorenzo." He looked up. "Please listen to me. I'm not asking you to stop." Her voice caught in her throat."I'm asking you to remember that there are people in this house who love you whether you win this battle or not." “I know.” A look of ease crossed his face as he took her hand from across the desk. "I remember." But his eyes had already gone back to the screen before he finished the sentence. ********** Sofia and Lucia arrived twenty minutes later, and the r
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 154: Cracks in the Architecture
"It's tied to this property. To the villa." "Show me," Lorenzo said. Sofia turned the laptop towards him. On it was a single line of transaction data, that was routed through an account none of them had mapped, terminated at a property tax service tied to the villa's own utilities. "It's not a threat," Sofia said slowly, working through it. "It's not large enough to touch anything real. Three hundred euros. Nothing." "Then why send it here at all?" Marco asked. Nobody answered. Lucia felt the silence settle into her chest, a weight she recognized from decades ago. "It's not money," she said finally. "It's a signature." Lorenzo looked at her. "What signature? Do explain what you mean by that." "A transfer that small, routed to touch this address specifically, serves no financial purpose at all." Her voice had gone quiet, careful. "It only exists to be found. And that means he wants you to know that he saw the disruption, understood exactly what it was, and deliberately
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 153:The First Move
Sofia had turned one of the walls in the study into a corkboard, using red threads to connect nodes the way she'd once connected them only on a screen. Lucia stood beside her, her coffee going cold in her hand as the both of them were so absorbed in the map that neither noticed Lorenzo in the doorway. "This one." Sofia tapped a printout near the center. "The consultancy account. If you're right about the coordination requirement, this is the one Ricci checks most, because it connects to nearly a third of the structure." "Yes. And it's also the most protected." Lucia frowned at the routing. "A man protects what he can't afford to lose, so he's telling us how much he needs it." "So we don't hit it directly." Sofia was already following the thread. "We need to find something he trusts to not bother watching." “How about that?" Lucia said, pointing to a smaller node near the edge — one Sofia had flagged weeks earlier and dismissed as insignificant. "There. Small transactions. Opera
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 5: The Secret That Breathes
The room became saturated with heavy, suffocating silence that was waiting to explode. Lorenzo didn’t take his eyes off Isabella not even for a second.“What child?” he repeated, his voice calm. Too calm.Isabella’s pulse roared in her ears. Her every instinct told her to deny it, to shut it down b
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 4: The Cage
The elevator doors slid open with a soft chime and for a second, Isabella simply stood there, her breath shallow, her mind trying to process all that had happened. The guards waited silently and unyielding behind her, their presence pressing against her back like a warning.She stepped out slowly.
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 3: The Escape That Failed
Isabella didn’t wait.The moment Lorenzo walked out of the exhibition room, the air rushed back into her lungs, but it wasn’t that of relief but panic.Her hands trembled slightly as she gathered her tools, shoving them into her bag with far less care than usual because her every instinct kept scre
The Mafia Boss's Estranged Bride. Chapter 2: The Man She Ran From
Two nights later, Isabella stood in front of Sofia’s mirror, just staring. The figure in the glass nearly resembled a person she didn’t recognize, it was merely a female figure wearing a navy blue gown, uncomplicated yet graceful, nothing flashy. She had deliberately selected the dress, something m
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