All Chapters of I Died Before "I Do": Chapter 11

Noemi's POVA few months later, in some distant foreign town, I stared at the message on my phone. My fingers shook.The war inside the Cassano Family was over. Marcello was gone. The family was finally quiet again.He'd won it all.And he was still hung up on a "dead" woman.When I learned the truth, relief never came. No release.I'd thought if I faked my death and walked away, he wouldn't care.Never crossed my mind he'd lock himself inside that lie and torture himself with it.The cold shoulder. The way he was gentle with another woman. The way he shoved me away and shattered my heart. All of it forced.He never betrayed me. Never changed. Not once did he stop loving me.And me? One misunderstanding, and I walked away without looking back. Left him alone in hell.Still, anger burned under it all.He never stopped to think maybe I didn't want protection. I wanted to stand beside him.Guilt. Heartache. Regret. Anger. It all twisted together until my eyes stung.I covere