Chapter 81

(Celeste Moretti’s POV) He carried me back inside and set me down on the sofa with the same calm efficiency he brought to everything. The fireplace cast warm amber light across the room, flickering softly against the walls. He crouched in front of me until we were eye level. For a long moment, Vincenzo said nothing at all. Then finally, in a low rough voice barely above a murmur, he spoke. “When the divorce judgment comes through,” he said quietly, “will you come with me to the registry office?” I blinked. The warmth from the champagne seemed to disappear instantly. I sat up straighter. “What did you just say?” He did not repeat himself. He only held my gaze steadily, completely unshaken, with an expression I had never seen on him before. It was not cold. Not calculated. Just certain. “I have never asked anyone this before,” he said. “And after you, I will never ask anyone else.” He paused briefly. “I want you. I need a wife. I want that person to be you.” His grey eyes s

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Chapter 82

(Author’s POV) Tiziana had spent three entire days beside Adelina’s hospital bed, and she had not wasted a single minute of it. She adjusted pillows before Adelina could ask. She brought meals from the restaurant Adelina preferred. She sat patiently through the dragging afternoon hours without complaint, summoning nurses the instant Adelina’s water glass looked less than half full. She played the role of the devoted, selfless daughter flawlessly, with the ease of someone who had practiced it all her life. Stefano came every day. And he noticed. With each visit, his attitude toward Tiziana softened visibly. The careful restraint he usually maintained around her loosened little by little every time he walked into the room. Tiziana noticed every subtle shift and quietly stored each one away. But Adelina herself remained unmoved. What sat heavily in Adelina’s chest was the memory of five hundred million dollars. Not five hundred. Not five thousand. Five hundred million. Money

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Chapter 83

(Author’s POV) Celeste refused to go herself. So Lavinia went instead. She appeared at the entrance of the conference room on the fourteenth floor of Moretti Holdings, clutching her handbag tightly in both hands, her face arranged into something between apology and desperation. Tiziana looked up from the table and immediately felt a flicker of distaste pass through her before she could suppress it. This woman. This housekeeper. She remembered Lavinia from the Moretti estate. A plain, exhausted woman who had spent years raising other people’s children, including Tiziana herself until the age of ten. Back then, Tiziana had tolerated her presence the same way one tolerated furniture. The warmth she had shown Lavinia over the past few weeks had been exactly what Celeste suspected it was. A performance. A carefully calculated act designed to unsettle Celeste and remind her that even her own mother could be turned against her. The objective had already been accomplished.

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Chapter 84

(Author’s POV) The call came the following morning. Celeste was seated at her desk inside the Aetheris Biotech laboratory, reviewing a stack of printed data reports, when her phone buzzed with Sebastian Argentieri’s number across the screen. “Good news,” he said the moment she answered. “The Argentieri family returned the funds. All five hundred million. The transfer came through this morning.” She leaned back slowly in her chair. “So quickly?” “They moved faster than I expected. Apparently nobody enjoys being on the receiving end of a Sebastian legal filing.” She could hear the amusement in his voice. “Don’t thank me too enthusiastically. I earn a percentage if we win. My motives are entirely selfish.” Celeste laughed softly, and some of the tension she had carried since her meeting with Stefan loosened slightly. “Even so,” she said, “thank you.” “Now that we’ve finished pretending gratitude matters,” Sebastian continued, “completely unrelated subject. A friend ga

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Chapter 84