Chiara’s POV My feelings for Luciano De Luca, as Chiara, were a tangled mess. Outrage and heartbreak were knotted together with a love that refused to die quietly. It made me emotional, reactive, quick to anger. As Doctor B, however, I could not afford any of that. Above all else, he could never know that the wife he refused to divorce was the very healer standing before him. So instead of rejecting his request to speak privately, I found myself complying. He was persistent, deliberate, and I lacked a solid excuse to turn him away. And if I stripped away my personal pain and viewed the situation strictly as Doctor B, then the truth was unavoidable—Luciano had just defended me. He had stood against Cesare’s family, despite the political consequences, and allowed me to pursue alternative treatments. He did not have to do that. At his core, he was a good man. A good Alpha King. Knowing that, however, only made everything more painful. He ruled his people with fairness and restr
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