All Chapters of Out of the Fog and Into the Sun: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

I, Tatiana Buzzelli, looked in the mirror and slowly fastened the ruby necklace around my neck.A gunshot sounded as Luciano Cacciola kicked the door open.Clad in a black trench coat, he appeared disheveled. His hair was messy, his clothes smeared with dust and blood.However, Loretta Peri, whom he was holding, was spotless.Loretta was his mentor's daughter. She hid behind him, trembling profusely.Her voice was as gentle as usual, but her gaze directed at me held a hint of defiance."Carlo made his move. The manor's defense system has been destroyed." Luciano's voice was icy, but he dared not look at me. Carlo Cacciola was Luciano's uncle, who wanted him dead."They've breached the outer defenses. This is the last line of defense. The helicopter's waiting outside, but I can only take one of you with me."I stared at myself in the mirror, anxiously clutching the hem of the wine-red gown I'd changed into for our wedding anniversary.I turned to look at Luciano, then my gaze

On the helicopter, Luciano held the trembling Loretta, a sharp ache tightening in his chest.This pain had nothing to do with the pacemaker.An ominous feeling rose in his heart."Luciano, where are we going?" Loretta asked, sobbing softly in his arms.Luciano didn't reply or lower his head to look at her.He stared at the silent phone in his hand, waiting for any information on me, even if it were just one word.An unease gnawed at him, and all he could do was comfort himself again and again.The safe house was secure. He had dispatched Team A for extraction, which was the most elite force the family had to offer. They would definitely arrive before the explosion.Everything was going according to plan.But why?But why? The unease inside him did not ease. Instead, it grew heavier by the second.Tension and restlessness closed in, as if something vital was being torn away, leaving him in a quiet panic.A soft ding sounded.His phone screen lit up. It was a text from me th

Lucano grabbed all the ledgers from Zeno and started flipping through them page by page, looking like a madman.Details he had once overlooked now rushed to him.Risk calls on shipping routes, money flow plans, laundering channels—each one meticulous, flawlessly reasoned.This was clearly not something a delicate woman who couldn't even twist a bottle cap open could've pulled off.Luciano stood up suddenly, knocking over the chair behind him.He grabbed Zeno's collar and demanded, "Was this all her work?"Zeno flinched at his outburst. "Si, Don. Mrs. Cacciola has dealt with core family finances and all the risk management for our gray businesses for the past seven years. She said you don't like dealing with these trivial matters."Luciano's hands shook, causing the ledgers to fall and scatter on the ground.He finally understood that the one he had destroyed with his own hands was the queen who had been the backbone of his entire empire.The ever-gentle Tatiana had merely been

I retracted my foot, disgust flashing across my gaze."What's there to talk about? Should we talk about how you'd blow your own wife to ashes for another woman?"Luciano's face paled instantly, his body trembling profusely as he remained on his knees.I leaned in close, my breath brushing his ear."Wake up, Luciano. The Tatiana Buzzelli who loved you burned to death in that fire. The one standing before you now is Buzz, and I want you dead."With that, I didn't spare him another glance and left.I wasn't going to hide the fact that I was Tatiana from him.I wanted him to remember that pain with perfect clarity and carry the guilt of "Tatiana's" return from the dead.I want "Tatiana" to kill him with her own hands.What I hadn't expected was Luciano's attitude.Not only did he agree without hesitation to hand over the Cacciola family, but he even used the handover and the collaboration as excuses to stay on board the cruise ship, refusing to leave my side.He kept trying to f