Bella lasted less than a day in the room they put her in.Alessandro left early and came back after dark with the kind of quiet that meant something final had been decided. He walked into the bedroom where I was waiting, closed the door, and leaned against it for a long moment before he spoke.“It’s finished.”I sat up straighter. “Bella?”“She gave me everything she had. The accounts. The names of the men she paid. The routes she sold to Volkov. The dates she planned the next attempt on you.” He rubbed a hand over his face. “When there was nothing left worth hearing, I ended it.”The words settled between us without drama. No long speech. No satisfaction in his voice. Just the flat reality of how his world worked. Bella had tried to have me killed, had helped burn pieces of his empire, and had used every old piece of knowledge she still held. In return she received the only ending men like him offered.I looked down at my hands. “Did she say why?”“She said she wanted what you took f
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