I had always believed that the easiest way to survive a situation I couldn't escape was to stop expecting anything from it. Expect nothing, and you wouldn't be disappointed. Ask no questions, and you wouldn't have to deal with answers you weren't ready to hear. And, above all, never allow yourself to care about something you were destined to lose. It was a simple rule. One I had followed for years without much difficulty. Unfortunately, Vincent Alessandro Moretti had a way of making even the simplest things complicated. Especially when it came to my own feelings. Yesterday, Victoria Romano had arrived at the estate, until now I still couldn't get her words out of my head. "He loved me once." The way she had said it had been deliberate, almost triumphant. She hadn't merely wanted me to know about their past. She had wanted me to understand that, before I came into Vincent's life, there had been someone else. Someone who had once occupied a place I had never been offe
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