LOGINChapter 15“Get your hands off me, Dante!”I wrenched myself away from him as soon as we got to the end of the long east wing hallway. The air at the estate was thick with the suffocating tears of my mother and twenty years’ worth of blood-stained lies.He paused, turning around to confront me behind that unshakeable façade of his. “We will return to the penthouse. The convoy is waiting.”“No way am I going anywhere until you tell me what she meant!” I yelled, invading his personal space with my trembling, furious, scared hands. “My mother fell to her knees and begged me never to ask about what you did to survive the night your family died in flames! What did you do after my mother left you in that driveway, Dante?”But Dante wouldn’t respond to me. He only stared down at me, his black eyes unreadable. He put one hand on my chin, his long fingers holding me by the face and preventing me from uttering another single word.“You’re not prepared for that story yet, Fina,” he growled, his
Chapter 14“You’re not supposed to be here.”Mom was trembling. Her voice broke as well. She took a few steps back until she felt the edge of the plush velvet chair against her knees as she clutched at her throat as if the very air around her had been transformed into ash.“Through my marriage to your daughter, Elena, I have the proxy votes of the Moretti Council,” Dante continued in his calm, even tone, advancing a step further into the room. “I can come and go as I please.”I glanced from my terrified, ghostly pale mother to Dante’s stern and sharp face. An oppressive revelation penetrated right into me.“Both of you are acquainted,” I whispered, my eyes moving rapidly between them. “It is not just as rivals. It is not just as a rival boss figures on a tactical map.”My mother didn’t answer me. She couldn’t tear her eyes off of Dante, her chest heaving under her black silk dress.“Your mother and I share quite a bit of history, Fina,” Dante spoke softly, standing right next to me. H
Chapter 13Chapter 13: The Question“Mama?”I did not bother waiting for an invitation. I opened up the heavy wooden doors to the sanctuary of my mother’s private quarters, my heart pounding like crazy inside my chest.Elena Moretti was sitting in her luxurious, high-backed chair by the huge arch window. Her face was delicate and vulnerable, encircled with the light of the afternoon that was coming in through the lace curtains. She was wearing her custom black silk clothes and a heavy silver rosary in her hands, but there was pain written all over her face.“Serafina,” she whispered, her voice as thin as paper as she looked up. There wasn’t any attempt at a smile from her. Instead, she motioned to the tea set sitting on the marble table next to her. “You shouldn’t be wandering around these halls. The place is filled with armed men. It’s not safe.”“Safe?” I snorted a dry breath as I shut the door behind me with an echoing clunk. “Mama, we haven’t been safe in six years now, and you’ve
Chapter 12“Get away from that terminal.”This voice rumbled through the oppressive quiet of the room as if it were a velvet mallet.Matteo and I turned in our seats together. Dante was standing in the doorway, filling the entrance. The jacket of his fitted suit was open, his hand hanging in the lapel pocket of it, mere inches from his shoulder holster. Two hefty men from the De Luca guard force stood behind him.“Dante,” I exclaimed, my heart banging against my chest. “You’re not meant to be here.”“I go wherever my wife goes,” Dante replied nonchalantly, entering the room and closing the thick, oak door behind him. His piercing black eyes lazily swept over the illuminated screen, before fixing on Matteo. “But I see that the two of you have managed to open Marco’s safe.”Matteo’s mouth tightened, his hand inches away from his side. “Leave my office, De Luca. This is a Moretti business.”“Once your father’s encryption code was used to target a sniper on my wife's head, it was no longe
Chapter 11“Dante paid for my life?”The words left an awful taste in my mouth. I backed away from Matteo, coming into contact with the hard edge of his desk. I couldn’t make sense of anything.Dante killed my father, saved me, took a bullet for me at the altar, and kept a picture of me taken when I was eighteen.“He hired a ghost squad to block the hit squad from entering our perimeter.” Matteo’s tone became rough and soft at the same time. “He has been following your footsteps since the night when father died. Why do you think you have survived until now while almost no one in our family survives beyond thirty?”I swallowed hard, my hands clinging to the back of the mahogany. “If Dante has been protecting me for six years… then who ordered the snipers to shoot me at the cathedral yesterday?”Matteo did not reply immediately. He walked over to his bottle of whiskey, pouring himself two fingers of it as his hands shook. He drank it all in one swift swallow.“It wasn’t just you, Fina,”
Chapter 10“Put it back, Fina.”His tone was just as icy as the metal of a gun. No longer was he the big brother who would bring me treats when Father’s restrictions were too much. In his fancy suit towering over me, he seemed like a completely different person.I knelt behind his desk, clutching the black ledger in my fists. My heart was beating against my rib cage wildly.“Aethelgard Holdings,” I told him, struggling to keep my voice from breaking as I pulled myself up into a standing position. “Three million dollars. Transferred directly to your foreign bank account six years ago. Just before the warehouse burned down.”He did not flinch. He just clenched his jaw and took on an expression that was almost vicious, but he did not run away. He did not even say sorry.“Really? You shouldn’t have been going through my stuff.”“Dad died in that fire, Matteo!” I yelled, releasing my rage in a raw and broken cry. Betrayal was the only word to describe the tears of anger burning in my eyes.




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