Amelie’s POVThe air felt thick, like if I breathed too deeply, it might crack.Nico hadn’t moved, not really, but the shift in him was immediate. His gaze was no longer on me. It was fixed on Luca — sharp, unblinking, dangerous.“You knew.”Not a question. Not even an accusation at first. Just a fact laid bare in the open.Luca didn’t answer. His jaw was tight, lips pressed into a flat line.Nico took a slow step forward, and I swear the floorboards creaked under the weight of it. “Santiago came to me,” he said, his voice so low it almost blended into the quiet. “He wanted the same thing from me. My loyalty. My silence. YOUR life.”The words were slow, deliberate, but his anger was a living thing — I could feel it pulsing through the room.“But I didn’t take the deal,” Nico went on, eyes narrowing. “I didn’t even think about taking the deal. And then I find out—” He stopped, his mouth curling into something sharp and cold. “—that you’d already agreed to give me up.”Matteo’s head sna
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