All Chapters of Falling for the Ruthless Billionaire Don : Chapter 21 - Chapter 28

ALEXANDER The map in front of me was covered in red marks, pins, post-its, and digital overlays. Dots where cameras went dark. Dots where the car might’ve changed routes. Dots where my enemies lived. None of them mattered. Not really. Because my sons were missing. And Marina Every second, I couldn’t find her feeling like a slow, deliberate death. I hadn’t slept. I hadn’t eaten. Carlos tried to get me to rest, but I couldn’t even sit still. I paced the perimeter of my own damn home like a wolf trapped behind glass. I’d done everything right. Increased security. Prepped emergency protocols. I thought I’d been ahead. And still, they were gone. The only people who mattered. And I knew exactly who had them. “Stephano,” I growled under my breath. His name tasted like Ash. I’d let him live too long. Given him too much leash. I thought cutting ties and drawing boundaries was enough that he’d respect fear the way most men do. But Stephano didn’t fear. He hungered.

MARINAThe car hummed beneath us, its engine low and steady as we sped down the highway. Alexander sat in the passenger seat beside Carlos, quiet, his profile carved in shadows as the night bled into early dawn. In the back, Vincent had fallen asleep again, curled up against Xavier, who clutched a worn blanket Carlos had dug out of the emergency bag. Their faces looked soft in sleep, untouched for a moment by everything they’d survived.I stared out the window, the world outside a blur of streetlights and darkness. I should have felt relief. Safety. Peace.But I didn’t.Not entirely.Alexander hadn’t tried to force a conversation after I took his hand. He didn’t ask me to forgive him. He just sat in that silence with me, holding it like something sacred.And yet…Now, with distance from the chaos, the quiet pressed differently. It made room for questions.For fears.For the ache I still hadn’t named.“You okay?” His voice was low, almost tentative.I turned my head, meeting his eyes i

MARINA“Baby, watch your steps, no running” I called out behind Xavier, walking fast to stop him from a fall, running around the cabin early in the morning.It’s been a week since we arrived here, let’s just say the cabin was just for the safety of the kids and I, Mr Torricelli is almost never here, I’m not complaining, I like it, I’m more free, I don’t need to work hard to ignore him, he is doing the job quite well.Just one week with the kids in this cabin, and I have bonded more with them, I’m loving every second of it.Carlos just comes in once in a while to check up on the kids and I if Mr Torricelli has gone for a long time. It’s been peaceful, but it feels like the calm before the storm. According to the bits of stuff I heard, they are still trying to find Stephano’s hideaway or even get an Intel on what he’s planning.“Mommy, catch me,” Xavier’s little baby voice brought me out of my thoughts.“I’m coming little baby,” I said as I try to walk faster behind him, this little

MARINAI was in the kitchen cutting apples to make an apple pie. My stomach was tight, my hands were restless, that’s why I took the job to make an apple pie. The cabin was too quiet, the boys were outside playing with some guards, doing whatever it takes to make themselves happy. Then the door banged open, Vincent rushed in first, his face lit up with excitement. “Mommy, Uncle Carlos said daddy got the bad guy,” My hands stopped cutting as I tried to understand what he just said.Xavier rushed in also with a walkie talkie in his hands “Mommy, daddy is coming,” “How did you guys know that?” I asked.“Uncle Carlos,” Xavier said holding the walkie talkie up, I collected it from him and pressed the button.“Carlos,” I said, my voice low and tight. “What happened?” The static cracked, and then Carlos voice came through. “Boss is inbound, no injuries, Stephano’s neutralized, he went in alone, we’ve got him, we are almost at the cabin,” My hands dropped, I didn’t know if what I felt was