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Chapter Eighty

LucaI didn’t plan what I was going to say to her.There was no speech in my head, no careful argument.Just the raw, simple truth of it:She’d chosen her power over my peace.Her survival over my trust.And no matter how many times she told herself it was to protect me, it didn’t make the betrayal any less complete.I waited until Alex confirmed it the location of the safehouse where Josephine was being held. A farmhouse thirty miles outside Florence, owned by a Ferraro shell company.Once that information was in my hands, the last tie she thought she had around my neck was gone.And there was nothing left to do but face her.I wheeled myself through the quiet house, past the flickering sconces and the old portraits of a family I no longer believed in.When I reached the suite she’d claimed as her own, I didn’t bother to knock.I pushed the door open and found her sitting at the vanity, brushing her hair like she had all the time in the world.She didn’t look up.“You used to watch me

Last Updated : 2025-04-29

Chapter Eighty One

LilaI thought I’d feel something when they found me.Relief. Gratitude. Maybe even joy.But when the door to that dark farmhouse splintered open and Luca’s men poured in faces grim, guns drawn I felt… nothing.Just numb.A hollow ache where my heart should have been.They wrapped me in a blanket. Asked if I was hurt. One of them called Alex, gave him some coded report about extraction.But no one asked how I was really doing.Not that I would’ve known how to answer.Because I wasn’t fine.I wasn’t even angry.I was just… empty.They put me in a black SUV and drove me away from the cold little room where they’d kept me. No windows. No clocks. Just time slipping by like water through a cracked glass.I didn’t ask where we were going.I didn’t care.Until we got there.Until I saw him.Luca.In his wheelchair, parked just outside the villa’s entrance like he’d been waiting all night. His face was unreadable stone carved from shadows.His eyes found mine the second the car pulled up.Ever

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Chapter Eighty Two

LucaI didn’t see her again for two days.Not even in passing.She stayed in the guest suite at the far end of the hall, the one with the door that never used to lock.It locked now.Every time I passed it on my way to my study, to the library, to anywhere that wasn’t her I felt the weight of it pressing against my ribs.I told myself she needed space.I told myself she deserved time to grieve, to recover.But none of that made it easier to breathe when I thought about how she’d looked when she stepped out of that car like she was already gone.And I’d never hated myself more.By the second night, the silence had grown so loud I couldn’t stand it.I wheeled myself down the hall after midnight, every rotation of the rims loud in the hush of the house.When I reached her door, I didn’t knock.I just rested my palm against the wood.For a moment, I thought about leaving.Letting her keep this distance.But if I did, I knew it would calcify into something worse something neither of us woul

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Chapter Eighty Three

LilaI don’t know how long I sat there after he left.Minutes. Hours.Time had stopped making sense somewhere between the farmhouse and this cold, perfect villa where nothing felt real anymore.When I finally moved, it was like my body wasn’t my own.I stood up too fast, and the room tilted.My stomach lurched.I pressed a trembling hand to my mouth, thinking maybe it was just the crying the adrenaline, the shock.But then the nausea twisted deeper, sharper, and I stumbled for the bathroom.I barely made it before I dropped to my knees in front of the toilet.My body heaved, dry sobs turning into something deeper. More primal.When it was over, I sagged against the cool porcelain, my breath coming in ragged gasps.I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand, heart thudding.It wasn’t the first time this week.It wasn’t even the second.I pressed a hand to my flat belly, feeling the way my skin was damp and hot, my pulse a wild flutter under my palm.It can’t be.But even as the thought c

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Chapter Eighty Four

Luca. I didn’t sleep.I sat in my study until the sun cracked the horizon, staring at the same line in the same report, reading it over and over without comprehension.When the knock finally came at dawn, I knew exactly who it was.Matteo didn’t bother to step inside.“She’s been in her room all night,” he reported quietly. “Didn’t leave. The staff says she sent her dinner tray back untouched.”I scrubbed a hand over my face.“I want her watched,” I said, my voice hoarse. “Discreetly. If she so much as sets foot off the property, you tell me.”Matteo nodded once. “Understood.”When he left, the silence felt thicker.I sat there another hour, going over every word she’d hurled at me, every accusation I hadn’t denied.I knew she was right.I’d carved out an empire that consumed anything weak enough to cross its borders.And she, God help me was the only thing I’d ever wanted to keep untouched.But I hadn’t.I’d failed her in every possible way.And now she looked at me like I was a stra

Last Updated : 2025-05-03

Chapter Eighty Five

LucaI didn’t hear the door open.I was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the window where the last light of day was fading into a bruised twilight.For a while, I thought I was imagining the footsteps behind me.Then I heard her voice.“Lila.”I turned so fast the room blurred.She was standing in the doorway, one hand braced on the jamb, a soft scarf draped over her shoulders.For a second, I forgot how to breathe.“Mama,” I whispered.Her smile trembled as she opened her arms.I was on my feet before I could think.Running.When I reached her, she folded me in, her thin arms strong in a way I hadn’t let myself remember.I buried my face against her shoulder, breathing in the scent of her clean linen, the faintest trace of hospital antiseptic, something familiar and warm.“You’re here,” I choked out. “I thought I thought I’d never see you again.”She pressed a kiss to my hair, her own voice shaking.“Nothing in this world was going to keep me from you,” she murmured. “Nothin

Last Updated : 2025-05-04

Chapter Eighty Six

Lila. I knew I couldn’t put it off any longer.After my mother fell asleep, I sat beside her for a while, just watching her breathe, trying to convince myself I was strong enough to do this.To tell him.To face whatever came next.But by the time I finally made my way down the long corridor to Luca’s study, my hands were shaking so badly I had to press them against my skirt to steady them.The door was ajar.I could hear his voice, low and strained, as he spoke on the phone.“No, you don’t wait for his permission,” he was saying tightly. “You take the offer off the table. If he wants to challenge me over it, let him.”There was a pause, and then a sigh, heavy and exhausted.“I don’t care if he’s been an ally for twenty years. He crossed a line.”Another pause.Then he murmured, “I’ll call you back,” before the line clicked.For a moment, I almost turned and fled.He looked…tired.Older somehow, though it had only been weeks since everything started unraveling.His hair was mussed lik

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Chapter Eighty Seven

Lila. I don’t remember leaving the villa.I don’t remember grabbing my bag or shoving my phone into my pocket.All I remember is the feeling like my skin was too tight, like my ribs were splintering from the inside out.I barely registered Matteo calling my name as I stormed past him.“Ma’am, wait, please”I didn’t stop.I didn’t even look at him.I just kept moving, my feet carrying me across the gravel drive and down the narrow path that wound through the gardens.I didn’t care that it was getting dark.I didn’t care that I was technically supposed to have security if I went anywhere.I needed to be away from him.From all of it.The moment I hit the main road, I lifted my phone to call a car.My hands were shaking so badly I nearly dropped it.When the driver finally pulled up, he looked at me like he wasn’t sure whether to ask if I was okay.I climbed into the back and slammed the door before he could open his mouth.“Just drive,” I rasped. “The address is in the app.”He nodded a

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Chapter Eighty Eight

Luca. The house was too quiet.I knew the moment I woke that she wasn’t here.At first, I thought maybe she’d just stepped out into the gardens she did that sometimes when everything felt too heavy.But when I called for Matteo, his expression told me the truth before he even opened his mouth.“She never came back last night,” he said carefully.I stared at him, the words slow to register.“What do you mean, she never came back?”“She left the property after your argument,” Matteo said quietly. “Took a car service to her mother’s cottage. She’s still there.”I pressed my thumb and forefinger against my eyes, willing the pressure in my skull to ease.“And you didn’t think to tell me?” I rasped.His mouth tightened.“I tried,” he said. “You turned off your phone.”I swore under my breath, rolling the tension from my shoulders.Matteo waited, silent and steady, but I could feel his judgment.And he wasn’t wrong to feel it.I had done this.I’d driven her away.I’d made her believe she wa

Last Updated : 2025-05-05

Chapter Eighty Nine

Lila. I hadn’t planned to say anything.The last thing I expected when I came back to the cottage with my mother’s prescriptions was to find Luca sitting in the living room, his hands folded tight in his lap like he was bracing for impact.It was strange, how someone so powerful could look so lost.How someone who terrified entire countries could sit in my mother’s small living room and look like a little boy who wasn’t sure if he was welcome.Part of me wanted to run to him, to erase the memory of that awful conversation in the study.But the other part, the part that was tired, and scared, and still so bruised kept me rooted to the floor.I watched him stand when he saw me, his face pale.“Lila,” he said hoarsely.My mother slipped out the back without a word, leaving us alone in the too quiet house. Honestly, I would have preferred for her to stay in the room with us, but she was gone. I shut the door behind me and set the paper bag of medications on the little table by the entry.

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