CHAPTER 56: TRIPLETS FIRST BREATH

The hospital in Palermo was the best in Sicily.Dante had made certain of that two months ago, quietly, efficiently paying for new equipment, ensuring the best surgical team would be on call, arranging private security for the floor. Dr. Mitchell had told him he was excessive. He had told her he preferred the word thorough.Now he stood outside the operating room, still in his coat, and felt more afraid than he had ever felt in his life.He had faced men with guns. He had survived two assassination attempts. He had built a criminal empire from the ground up while barely out of his twenties and had never once flinched.Right now his hands were shaking.Alessandro arrived at four in the morning, followed by Matteo, then Lorenzo, then Giovanni, and finally Rafael. One by one they filled the corridor outside the operating room, five large, dark-haired men in various states of dishevelment, all of them quiet and tense and waiting.“She is going to be fine,” Alessandro said.“You do not kno

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CHAPTER 57:TRIPLETS FIRST YEAR

The triplets came home to the villa on a Tuesday, and the villa was never quiet again.This was not a complaint.Elena had not realized how silent the estate had felt in all those months of pregnancy — all that peace and protection with nothing to fill it but waiting. Now the halls were full of sound: the particular crying of three distinct babies who already had three distinct cries, the soft padding of nurses’ shoes, the low rumble of Dante on the phone being interrupted mid-sentence by one daughter or another, and the constant gentle argument between the three night nurses about which baby was which.“Sofia has a birthmark,” Elena would tell them patiently. “A small one, behind her right ear.”“And Luna has darker eyebrows,” Dante would add.“And Aria—” They would look at each other. Aria had no distinguishing marks whatsoever. She simply had that look. That particular way of watching everything that made grown adults feel slightly assessed.“We will just know Aria,” Dante decided.

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CHAPTER 58: THE EYES IN THE DARK

Alessandro said nothing to Dante that night.He waited until the guests had gone, the girls were in bed, Elena was asleep, and the villa had settled into its late-night quiet. Then he knocked on the door of Dante’s study and walked in and set the guard’s phone on the desk.Dante looked at it. Then he looked at Alessandro.“Tell me,” he said.Alessandro told him. All of it, the guard, the photographs, the coordinates, the dropped phone, the clean escape. He told it quickly and without softening.Dante listened without moving. When Alessandro finished, Dante picked up the guard’s phone and looked at the photographs. He looked at them for a long time.“They targeted my daughters,” he said at last. His voice was very quiet. That particular quiet that people who knew Dante recognized immediately the one that was more dangerous than shouting.“It appears so,” Alessandro said.“At their birthday party.” The phone lowered. “In my home.”“Yes.”A long silence.“Who was the guard?” Dante asked.

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CHAPTER 59: BLOOD AND ROSES

Elena did not sleep that night.She lay in the dark beside Dante, listening to his breathing slow and deepen, and stared at the ceiling. The house was perfectly quiet. Eight guards on the perimeter, two outside the nursery, one at the front gate, one at the back. Every camera operational. Every lock secured.It should have been enough to let her rest.It was not.At two in the morning she got up quietly, wrapped herself in a robe, and walked down the corridor to the nursery.The nurse on night duty looked up as Elena came in. “Signora. Is everything all right?”“I just wanted to check on them,” Elena said.The nurse nodded softly and stepped back to give her space.Elena stood between the three cribs in the dark room and looked at her daughters.Sofia was sprawled on her back with both arms flung wide, sleeping with the total abandonment of someone who trusted completely that the world would be safe while she rested. Luna was curled on her side, her thumb near her mouth, breathing in

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All Chapters of THE MAFIA’S HIDDEN PRINCESS RETURNS: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

CHAPTER 56: TRIPLETS FIRST BREATH

CHAPTER 57:TRIPLETS FIRST YEAR

CHAPTER 58: THE EYES IN THE DARK

CHAPTER 59: BLOOD AND ROSES