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The Principessa’s Return
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When I took a bullet for Theo Moretti, the bullet grazed my temple, compressing the optic nerve and causing blindness in both my eyes. He kneeled by my hospital bed, pressed the family crest to his chest, and swore: “Sophie, I will be your eyes for life. If I break this oath, may I die a horrendous death.” I believed him. However, the day my sight returned, I saw Theo through the bedroom door, naked on our marital bed with the maid, Isabella. He gripped her waist and thrust violently, his voice hoarse in a way I had never heard, growling, “Bella… you really are the most seductive woman in all of Sicily…” “Theo, who else besides me could satisfy you like this in bed? Divorce that blind woman already!” Isabella nibbled his earlobe. “After all, I’m the one who truly understands you.” “Wait a little longer,” Theo panted. “I need time… Don Lucas just handed me control of the docks. If I divorce now, I’ll be left with nothing.” Rare snowflakes rained down outside. I walked barefoot out of the estate in a thin nightgown and sent an encrypted message to my father. “Father, send someone to pick me up in three days. I’m coming home.” Don Lucas, my father, never expected that the boss he had personally promoted would dare betray his daughter. He replied with a single sentence: “For daring to betray you, Theo’s dead.” What I did not know was that this message would ignite a storm that would sweep across all of Sicily. In three days, Theo Moretti, the man I had risked my life for and I had personally helped rise to power, would lose everything he held dear, including me.
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The Principessa’s Return Chapter 9
After Isabella’s death, Theo completely collapsed.He was transferred back to Sicily, no longer as boss, but a low-level soldato, tasked with guarding one of the family’s abandoned warehouses.Though he tried several times to see me, Silas blocked him every time.“The principessa’s schedule is very busy,” the consigliere said elegantly. “She has to accompany Don Lucas to Rome for business, audit the intelligence unit’s accounts, and try on her wedding dress. She has no time for a soldato who once betrayed her.”Theo spent an entire night standing at the warehouse door.The next morning, he saw me arm in arm with Silas walking out of the castle.I wore a black suit, sunglasses, and a bag.Silas opened the car door for me, his suit cuff revealing a platinum cufflink matching mine.We looked like a true aristocratic couple, perfectly paired.Theo ran toward us, only to be stopped by the guards.He shouted, “Sophie! I love you! I beg you, give me one more chance!”I paused, remo
The Principessa’s Return Chapter 8
The third month of Theo’s time in Colombia, I received the first batch of reports from the farm.“He’s performing well,” Silas said, sitting in my office. “Working sixteen hours a day loading and unloading cargo, never complains. The few times local drug lords have provoked him, he took down four men barehanded.”“He’s a soldato,” I said, flipping through the files. “Manual labor won’t defeat him.”“Sophie,” Silas suddenly said, “do you really want him to stay there forever?”I looked up.Silas’ striking gray eyes were calm as they gazed at me, but it felt like they were piercing through my soul.“What are you trying to say?”“What I mean is…” He slid a document across the desk. “Word from Colombia is that Isabella’s lover, the drug lord, is plotting a prison break. His target is revenge on the Lucas family.”I frowned.Isabella was already dead, yet her lover still dared to challenge us?“She’s not dead,” Silas said. “The fall was faked. Theo’s right-hand man helped her fake
The Principessa’s Return Chapter 7
On the fifth day after Theo was taken to Colombia, I officially returned to the family and assumed the role of head of the Intelligence Unit.Father placed a silver Browning pistol, a symbol of power, into my palm and said, “Sophie, Silas pulled strings to get this for you. From now on, our European lines are under your control.”The gun felt cold against my skin.It was a symbol even more authoritative than the boss insignia, something only core members were allowed to carry at family meetings.“Why would Silas help me?” I asked Father.Don Lucas exhaled a puff of cigar smoke and smiled knowingly.“That kid has had his eye on you since you were twelve. When you ran away because of Theo, he locked himself in the study for three days. Came out saying he wanted to further his law studies at Cambridge. Isn’t that ridiculous? A mafia consigliere studying law?”I froze.Silas De Luca was the family’s youngest chief consigliere. With double doctorates in law and economics from Camb
The Principessa’s Return Chapter 6
Sophie's Point of ViewDon Lucas spoke for him. “She kneeled outside my study for an entire night, saying she had found a man worthy of trust. A loyal man willing to give everything for the family.”Low murmurs spread through the hall.Everyone knew Don Lucas had granted a brave soldato a good marriage. However, this was the first time anyone learned that the mysterious bride had been the missing principessa.“Now, let my daughter personally tell you what you’ve done.”He snapped his fingers.A side door opened, and I walked out slowly.I wore a black suit. My hair was pinned up, revealing my elegant neck.My eyes, which had once gone blind for him, were now bright as stars, yet cold as ice.I didn’t look at Theo even once, walking straight to Don Lucas’s side and sitting down.It was the principessa’s seat, high above everyone else.“Sophie…” Theo whispered, stepping forward.Two family guards immediately blocked him.“Theo Moretti,” I said, my voice clear and icy. “The p
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