Luca was only eighteen then.He had been forced into taking over the family business before he was ready. He was just an inexperienced young man who understood nothing, yet stubborn enough to refuse to bow down to anyone.At the time, I was the assistant secretary to Villani Senior, Luca’s father. When he passed, I chose to stay and help Luca.The Luca then wasn’t like the man he became now.If I casually mentioned having a stomachache, he would run across several streets just to buy me medicine.When I worked overtime until the middle of the night, he would quietly drape his coat over my shoulders.After killing someone for the first time, he trembled while holding me and whispered, “Isabella, I’m scared.”Back then, there had truly been light in the way he looked at me.On the day he proposed, he slipped the ring onto my finger and swore to me, “Once I secure my position, I’ll give you a grand wedding.”I waited for eight years. What I got was his ninety-ninth canceled wed
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