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Arie’s POV“Before I can send you home, Arie, I need you to help me destroy my husband.”The words emptied the air from the room.I stared at Bianca, waiting for her to smile or explain that I had misunderstood. She did neither. She stood across from me with one hand resting beside the phone, the recording application glowing between us.“What did you just say?”“I need to make certain Nico can never do this again.”“That isn’t what you said.”Bianca released a slow breath. “When I said destroy him, I didn’t mean physically.”“Then what did you mean?”“I mean destroying the power he holds over us.”I moved away from the table.Only an hour ago, I had believed I was finally safe. Now another person was asking me to become part of a plan I didn’t understand.“I’m not interested in your war with Nico.”“This isn’t a war.”“It sounds like one.”“It is protection.”“For whom?”“For both of us.”Bianca reached for my hand, but I pulled it away.The hurt that crossed her face made guilt rise

Arie’s POVTwo Years EarlierThe first time I saw Nicholas Contini bleeding, I was wearing a white dress.By the end of that night, his blood would stain my hands, ruin the lace around my sleeve, and mark the beginning of a secret neither of us would know how to escape.But when I unlocked my father’s study, I believed the room would be empty.It had remained closed since his death two years earlier. Uncle Angelo possessed the official key, but Papa had once given me another and made me promise not to tell anyone. I carried it everywhere, even after there was no longer anyone waiting for me inside.Tonight, the Romano estate was filled with people honouring the memory of a man most of them had only valued for his influence.The Continis occupied one side of the dining table, the Romanos the other. Our families had been allies for longer than I had been alive, connected through business, loyalty, and enough buried blood to ensure neither could ever walk away easily.Uncle Angelo had sp

Arie’s POVNico reached me before the first pieces of glass struck the ground.His arm closed around my waist, dragging me against him as he threw both of us behind the broken fountain. We landed hard against the stone floor, his body covering mine while fragments rained over his back.A second gunshot tore through the greenhouse.The bullet struck the fountain precisely where I had been standing moments earlier.“Stay down.”Nico’s voice was no longer quiet or teasing. It carried the ruthless authority of the man who controlled the Contini empire.He reached beneath his jacket and pulled out his gun. His other arm remained locked around me, holding me against his chest as he searched the shattered windows.My thoughts refused to catch up with what was happening. Only seconds earlier, we had been arguing about my handkerchief. Now the air smelled of dust and gunpowder, and Nico’s heartbeat thundered beneath my cheek.“Leon!” he shouted.Gunfire answered from somewhere beyond the garde