Chapter 41: The Girl Who Died and Lived Again

Leona’s POV It's been over two months now but I can't forget that night.The night I left, the world didn’t end...it just went silent.No sirens. No footsteps. No shouting in the hall. Only my heartbeat, pounding too fast for a body that hadn’t run far enough yet.I didn’t look back. If I did, I might see him or his shadow in the doorway, the weight of everything I still wanted to say but never could. So I kept walking until the city swallowed me whole.When I reached Nora’s place, the sky was just starting to turn midnight blue. My fingers trembled as I pressed the buzzer. One ring. Two. Then the door opened, and there she was...barefoot, hair in a messy bun, eyes wide like she’d seen a ghost.She didn’t ask questions. She just pulled me in.“Leona?” she whispered, clutching my shoulders like she wasn’t sure I was real.“I can’t stay,” I said. My voice cracked on the words. “I just...needed to see you before I disappear.”Her expression flickered between fear and determination. “Th

Chapter 42: The Trail of Lies

Dante’s POVVerona appeared beneath us through a veil of rain.The city was nothing like New York.New York announced itself. It roared. It glittered. It threatened you openly.Verona whispered.From the small window of the jet, I watched the lights scattered beneath the clouds, golden against the wet darkness, ancient buildings pressed together as though they were keeping secrets from the rest of the world.I should have felt nothing.Instead, I felt the familiar pressure behind my ribs.Leona.Every city had become a question since she disappeared.Was she here?Had she been here?Was she alive?The last question was the one I refused to ask aloud.Because asking it would make it real.I leaned back in my seat and checked my watch.02:17.We had left New York less than three hours ago.Luca sat opposite me, his elbows resting on his knees, phone clenched between both hands. He had barely spoken since we boarded.Neither of us needed to.The image of Joe's body had followed us onto t

Chapter 43: The City That Remembers

Leona’s POVThe first thing I noticed about Verona was the silence. Not the absence of sound. There was plenty of it.Cars whispered over wet roads. Somewhere in the distance, a bell tolled through the night. People laughed beneath umbrellas, their voices carried away by the cold wind. A train groaned behind me as it pulled away from the station, leaving a trail of steam and the metallic smell of rain but beneath all of it was something quieter.Something that felt like it was waiting.I stood on the platform with my small bag hanging from my shoulder, the leather-bound book pressed against my chest.Verona.I had said the name so many times in my head that it had almost stopped sounding real. Now I was standing inside it.My birthplace.The place my mother had written about, the place my father had apparently tried to protect. The place where my family had begun…And where, according to the words hidden inside that book, everything would eventually end.I looked around. There was not

Chapter 44: The Keeper of What Remained

Dante’s POV The pensione looked insignificant.Three floors, old stone and faded sign above the entrance.Nothing about it suggested that a woman I had spent two months searching for had once slept inside.I stood across the street and stared.“Don’t approach the clerk,” I told Luca.“Why?”“Because if someone rehearsed his story, they’ll know exactly what he was supposed to say.”“And if we question him?”“He’ll repeat it.”“So what do we do?”“Watch.”We remained there for nearly an hour. People came and went. A woman carrying groceries, an elderly couple, a delivery man. Nothing, then a man stepped out of the pensione.He paused, looked around and then, walked away.I narrowed my eyes.“Follow him.”Luca immediately reached for his phone. One of our men moved after him. I watched until they disappeared around the corner.Then I looked back at the pensione.Leona had been here, that much was real. But why?Was she passing through?Was she hiding?Was someone helping her? Or had she

All Chapters of THE DON'S FAVORITE OBSESSION : Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

Chapter 41: The Girl Who Died and Lived Again

Chapter 42: The Trail of Lies

Chapter 43: The City That Remembers

Chapter 44: The Keeper of What Remained