Chapter 11

(Dario's POV)The morning Sophie left, I came downstairs and the dining room was empty.I assumed she was in the garden.She used to get up early sometimes and cut a few flowers for the table.I went to the kitchen first and checked the medicine cabinet. The bottles were where they were supposed to be, lined up in order. Same as yesterday.Then I walked the garden. She wasn't there.I started to lose my temper. Hadn't I told her, the next time she was out of my sight I would shoot.Then the butler came and told me she was gone.It hit me — that old cloth bundle in her hand. She was actually leaving.I went to her room.Everything was tidy. The bed made, the pillows squared, the clothes still hanging in the closet. Except the few she'd come with.She really was gone.There was a faint smell of lemon in the air.She was still here, somehow.I should have felt free.For five years I'd told myself she'd shackled me into this marriage. That she was a stranger my grandfather had pushed on me

Chapter 12

(Sophie's POV)We cut the trip short. I said I needed to leave for the school.The day I went, he insisted on driving me to the airport.I knew he was watching me. I didn't look back. Not once.—On the morning of my twenty-fifth birthday, half-asleep, someone knocked at my door.I rubbed my eyes and opened it. Dario was standing there.He was in a black suit. Dark grey tie, knotted with care. His hair combed even neater than usual. The sun behind him put a faint gold along his outline."Sophie," he said, his voice lower than usual. "Come on. Let's get the divorce done."I stared at him.No one in the Vellari Famiglia had ever divorced before.Not because the law forbade it. Because tradition forbade it.Wanting a divorce meant going to the Famiglia tribunal.In a hundred years, no one had survived it.So no one ever divorced.The Salvatores were the same. The old Don had said it once: Salvatores don't divorce. Only death dissolves the marriage.Even though I had committed to leaving,

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