IsabellaElena turned fourteen on a bright autumn afternoon, the estate grounds filled with the particular chaos of a birthday celebration that had grown considerably more elaborate than the quiet gatherings of her early childhood.I watched her from the terrace, laughing with a cluster of friends near the garden's edge, and felt the familiar ache of recognizing how quickly the years had passed since that terrified first year of her life, premature and fragile, when we hadn't been certain she would survive at all."She looks so much like you," Damiano said, settling beside me, his hair now threaded with more gray than it had carried during those early, dangerous years, though his presence still carried the same steady strength I'd learned to depend on completely."She has your stubbornness," I said, watching Elena argue passionately with one of her friends about something that appeared, from this distance, to carry the gravity of an actual diplomatic crisis. "And apparently your flair
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