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Chapter 61

BellaI hadn’t really slept.Maybe two hours. Maybe less. Aristide made me. He tucked me into the narrow cot in the doctor’s guest room, kissed my forehead, and whispered something about the baby needing rest if I wouldn’t take it for myself.The second I woke, I was pacing.It was morning, sunlight filtering through thin blinds, but the air still felt choked with smoke. The scent of scorched metal and blood clung to my skin like it had fused to me.Enzo had almost died. Enzo.I rubbed a hand down my face and turned toward the door of the sterile room down the hall, half-expecting to hear some monitor start screaming or a nurse come running. But it was silent. Too silent.Aristide had promised me—he’d promised all of us—that the doctor was the best. And the surgery had gone well. No organ damage, just tissue repair. The doctor said he’d live.But I’d seen the way Enzo had looked at Elena, reaching for her with trembling fingers as if she might vanish before he could speak. I’d seen th

Last Updated : 2025-07-24

Chapter 62

AristideI woke before the sun.The house was too quiet. A silence that didn't bring peace… just pressure. I threw on a shirt, holstered my sidearm, and crossed the estate toward the war room, barking out orders on the way. No more gaps. No more assumptions.Every camera feed was pulled. Guard rotations tightened. Staff restricted. Elena had personally verified every guard and household member left on the premises. If there was a mole, they'd be starved of anything useful. I was going to make damn sure of that.My phone vibrated. I picked up on the first ring.“He’s awake,” Elena said.My whole body exhaled like I’d been holding my breath since the night before. “He’s good?”“Tired. Groggy. But lucid. The doctor says he’s lucky, Aristide. Another inch and—”“I know.” I scrubbed a hand down my face. “Get him back here as soon as the doc clears him. Izzy’s already asking.”“She’s probably already got the whole house rearranged.”A faint smile touched my mouth. “Yeah. She’s making sure h

Last Updated : 2025-07-25

Chapter 63

BellaI stood in the center of the war room, hands flat on the table. The lights above cast sharp shadows across the maps and files spread before me, while the reinforced windows kept the growing morning heat at bay.Everyone was here; Vasari, Leone, our own inner circle. Matteo stood near the wall with folded arms, quietly observing, while Marco leaned against the door, his expression hard. Enzo had excused himself, still too sore to sit through long meetings. I didn’t blame him.Aristide was beside me. Calm, lethal. But I could feel the charge just beneath his skin. We hadn’t talked about the explosion in depth yet, not outside the family. Not in front of the allies. That was about to change.“We know the bomb was intended for our car,” I said, my voice steady despite the knot twisting in my chest. “We believe the attempt was an inside job… someone either leaked our route or had eyes too close to our movements.” A murmur passed through the room. Tense. Controlled. “We’ve initiated f

Last Updated : 2025-07-26

Chapter 64

By the time I stepped into the war room again, the light had changed. Afternoon sun stretched long across the polished floors, casting a golden sheen over maps, ledgers, and encrypted tablets stacked along the main table. Most of the summit families had cleared out to their respective quarters for rest or private calls. What remained was our inner circle—just the people I trusted. Or thought I trusted.Bella stood near the main screen, arms folded, jaw tight. She hadn’t sat down since we started tightening protocols. Elena hovered nearby, a tablet in her hand, scrolling rapidly through the flagged activity logs. My father leaned against the window frame, silent, but sharp-eyed as always. Marco paced near the wall. And I… I had the unmistakable sense that something wasn’t adding up.“We swept every inch of the guest wing again,” Elena said without looking up. “No signs of tampering. But the signal activity originated from inside.”“In the house,” Bella said flatly. “Not the perimeter.

Last Updated : 2025-07-29

Chapter 65

EnzoThe bandage under my ribs pulled every time I moved. Every breath felt like it came with a warning. But pain didn’t stop me. It hadn’t the night of the bombing, and it wouldn’t now. Not while there was still a snake in our house. The tablet balanced on my lap as I scrolled through security reports. Elena had already locked down the estate with military precision, but I wanted more than reports. I wanted fingerprints. Faces. One wrong glance on a hallway camera. One overheard whisper. Someone had slipped inside the house during the summit and tried to access the relay hub data we recovered.That meant betrayal... That meant war.“Enzo.” Her voice floated through the open door before she appeared.I looked up. Elena stepped in quietly, closing the door behind her. She had on one of Aristide’s flannels again—something oversized, probably from his teenage years, with rolled sleeves and a few dark smudges on the hem from working in the garage. She always wore comfort like armor when s

Last Updated : 2025-07-30

Chapter 66

AristideThe air inside the war room felt heavier than usual.Elena leaned over the central table, fingers flying across the screen as she pulled the latest surveillance clusters. Enzo, despite the doctor’s protests, stood with a wrapped ribcage and a fire in his eyes. Marco hovered in the corner, working with my father to re-route secondary guard paths on the north perimeter.It should’ve been enough.But I couldn’t shake the itch under my skin... that creeping sense that something was still coming.We were getting close.I could feel it. Cipher’s hands were tightening. The pattern of strikes, the way the relay hub had been breached, the failed bombing—all of it was building toward something final. They were losing ground, so they were getting desperate.And desperate enemies always drew blood.My phone buzzed.Unknown number.I narrowed my eyes but answered anyway. “This is Moretti.”A beat of silence. Then a shaky voice: “It’s Rosa.”I straightened. “How did you get this number?”“

Last Updated : 2025-08-01

Chapter 67

BellaWe had to call my father in. It was the only way. The moment the war room confirmed someone inside the estate had attempted to access encrypted data from the relay hub, I knew this was bigger than all of us. We needed every piece of the puzzle on the table—even the ones that were cracked, worn, or blood-stained.Antonio Romano arrived twenty minutes after the call. He walked into the house like a man who still didn’t know whether he belonged here. I watched him as he entered the war room and took the empty seat to my left, shoulders tight, jaw harder than I’d seen in years.He said nothing at first. Now, as the silence stretched, his hands trembled slightly as they rested against his chin. His eyes didn’t meet mine. They stayed locked on the floor plan spread across the table, on the red-circled guest room that had housed the device.“I never thought I’d see the day someone would dare spy inside your house,” he finally said, voice low, broken in a way he tried to hide.“You thin

Last Updated : 2025-08-05

Chapter 68

AristideI sat in the dark corner of the study for hours, elbows on my knees, fingers laced tight as if prayer would do me any good now. I replayed the argument again and again. Bella’s face when I said it, how her mouth parted, eyes glossy but refusing to fall apart in front of me. Not in front of anyone.God, I’d seen her break before—quietly, when it was just us—but this was different. She didn’t cry. She froze. Like I’d become the very thing she’d spent her life fighting against. Like I was no better than the people who used her, dismissed her, treated her like a pawn instead of the strongest woman I know."Maybe you don’t love me—you just love the power I gave you." What the hell was I thinking?I knew it wasn’t true the second the words left my mouth. It wasn’t even about her. It was about the fear crawling under my skin since the bombing, the guilt I carry for Enzo, for the baby, for dragging her into all of this. She wanted to offer herself up to her mother and sister—bait in

Last Updated : 2025-08-05

Chapter 69

BellaThe sky outside the window was the same dull gray it had been for days, thick with the kind of humidity that pressed against your skin and made everything feel heavier—like grief, or guilt.I stared out over the estate grounds, hands cradling my stomach, silently begging the universe to give me one clear sign this was going to work.The plan was simple. Effective. Ruthless.A leak. A carefully timed betrayal. And me, at the center of it all.Aristide hated every inch of it.I couldn’t blame him. Hell, I hated it too. But it was the only play we had left. Cipher’s people were embedded deeper than we’d feared—someone had tried to set up a strike on the estate using info only shared in the summit room. Whoever they were, they needed to believe things were falling apart between us. That the alliance was breaking. That I was vulnerable.So I said things I didn’t mean.Things I knew would land like bullets in Aristide’s chest.“You think I can’t do this without you?” I’d snapped, tear

Last Updated : 2025-08-06

Chapter 70

AristideThe old wood door creaked as Elena slipped into the dim apartment we were using as our safehouse. The moment I saw her face, I knew—something had cracked open.She didn’t speak right away, only shook her head as she passed me the folder she’d brought.I took it in silence, flipped it open. Surveillance photos. Transcripts. A timestamped log of an outgoing message—routed straight to one of Bianchi’s encrypted proxy channels. The same bait message we’d seeded three nights ago under Bella’s supposed outburst.They took it.Hook, line, and sinker.“The leak’s real,” Elena said, her voice low and tight. “We let the mole believe the plan was genuine. They passed it on. Just like you predicted.”I didn’t answer. I just sat there, staring at the proof. It should’ve felt like a victory. The kind that keeps you alive in this world.But all I felt was the hollow space in my chest where she should be. Bella.“She played her part too well,” I muttered. “And I let her.”Elena crossed her a

Last Updated : 2025-08-06

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