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Chapter 1

When Alessandro came with Victoria to bring me home, I hadn't eaten in three days.In my three years at the reform house, I lived worse than the lowest soldier in the family.The people who ran the place treated me like a servant. They ordered me around. If anything went wrong, they kicked and hit me.One hard winter, my leg got frostbite. Nobody treated it for a long time. It never fully healed.I used to be the Moretti family's precious girl. Now my leg ached every time the weather turned cold, and on the worst days I could barely walk.So when I came back to the estate, all I had to wear was an old white dress gone yellow from washing.Nobody helped me. I struggled to get myself out of the black car on my own.Whispers started up all around me. Reporters and spies from every family had heard I was back. They crowded in, shouting over each other, asking what my three years had been like.I turned my face away without thinking. I didn't know what to do with my hands, so I clutched my

Chapter 2

In the end, it was the Moretti family's old butler who came and took me back to the estate himself.I'd lived in this place for more than ten years. Now it felt like a stranger's house.The rosebushes I loved as a kid had been ripped out. The private stables in the back of the garden had a new fence.I stared toward the stables for a long time. I hesitated. Then I couldn't help asking."Sir, where's my little white horse?"When I was little, some kids picked on me at school.One boy pushed me down on purpose. I scraped my knee. Then he laughed and said nobody had my back.When Alessandro found out, he showed up at the boy's house with a few family guards and taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget.After that, he picked out a gentle little white horse from the family stables and gave it to me.He wasn't very old himself back then.He wanted me to feel safe riding. So he learned from the horse trainer how to take care of it. He wouldn't let anyone else feed it or brush its mane.I still

Chapter 3

She glanced at my phone. Then she put on a sweet, harmless smile."Sis, it's all my fault for being so sick. Alessandro and Matteo really didn't mean to leave you out there.""Let me say sorry, okay? They're downstairs and dinner's ready. Let's go down together."Before I could say no, she grabbed my wrist and dragged me down the stairs.She was shockingly strong. I tried to pull free a few times, but I couldn't.Only when she'd pushed me down into a chair in the dining room did I see that Alessandro and Matteo were both there.The whole table in front of them was covered in seafood. It almost looked like they were really welcoming me home.Victoria played the sweet, thoughtful one. She ladled out a bowl of fish soup herself and held it out to me with a big smile."Sis, you must be exhausted. Have some soup first."The fishy smell filled the air. I fought back the nausea and said quietly, "No thanks. You guys go ahead."I pushed the bowl away and turned to go back upstairs.Victoria pa

Chapter 4

My leg hurt so much. My stomach kept churning.I couldn't sleep all night. I swallowed two painkillers, dragged myself to the window, and counted the stars by myself.I couldn't remember much from when I was very small anymore.But I sort of remembered my mother telling me that if you made a wish on a star, good luck would come.Just then, there was a soft knock on the door.I turned around, on guard. It was the Moretti family's old butler."Miss, you've been through so much these past few years."When he saw how swollen and bruised my knee was, his eyes went red right away.He gently patted my head. Then he brought over some ointment and carefully rubbed it into my knee."The young master took Miss Victoria out to dinner. I came while they're gone to check on you."The cool ointment eased the burning pain. But the more he looked, the more upset he got. Finally, he couldn't keep it in."Miss, as long as Victoria is in this house, you'll never have any peace.""Take it from an old man.

Chapter 5

For the next week, I didn't see Alessandro or Victoria once.I locked myself in my room every day. I practiced day and night, trying to make up for three lost years.Luckily, I'd inherited my mother's gift for singing. I got the competition pieces down fast. All that was left was running them over and over.But lately, my head always felt foggy.My voice was always hoarse. I couldn't get enough breath.At first I thought it was my illness. Then I noticed it only got worse after I drank the water the maid brought up every morning.I poured a glass into a bottle and had it tested.Someone was putting something in my water. Something that would ruin a singer's voice.There was only one person in the Moretti house who wanted me out of that competition that badly.Victoria.I took the test results and went straight to Alessandro's study. He was alone, smoking."Victoria's been drugging my water." I put the report on his desk. "I'm going to tell the Don. And the competition board."Alessandr

Chapter 6

When I woke up, the story already seemed to be nearing its end.Victoria had won the opera competition.Matteo had proposed to her right there on the stage, in front of a roaring crowd.And I could barely walk. The cold had crept back into my leg, and the illness had taken most of the strength I had left.I watched the news replay it over and over on TV.I felt like a rag doll with nothing left inside.“We’re told that today, Matteo Moretti and Miss Victoria will celebrate her birthday at the Rosewood estate, where they’ll officially announce their engagement.”It wasn’t until I heard that line that I slowly came back to myself.The Rosewood estate was the house my father left me.There was a whole garden of roses there, and a peach tree, my favorite.Why would they go there?Besides, Victoria was allergic to pollen.Who knew what those lunatics would do to that place?I couldn’t let myself think any further.I pulled on my shoes and ran.By the time I got there, a crowd had already ga

Chapter 7

When I woke up, a whole week had gone by.The smell of disinfectant hung in the air. I was in a hospital.Dante was talking to someone beside the bed."When is Bella going to wake up?""If this keeps up, we're flying her to Zurich. I'll get every doctor in Europe in here!""What are you panicking for? Can you sit still for one second? Look, Miss Conti's awake.""You're messing with me again!"Dante sounded hurt, but he still turned around to look.His eyes ran straight into mine."Bella..."He stared at me. Then he blinked, and his lashes caught a faint shine of tears."Isabella Conti, you're finally awake!"His voice was hoarse, thick with the tears he was holding back.When I didn't say anything for a long moment, he suddenly panicked.He fumbled to pour me a glass of water, looking a little wounded."Don't tell me you forgot me!""I looked for you for so long, Bella."I was quiet for a moment. Then I laughed.Maybe heaven hadn't given up on me after all."I never forgot you. Not onc

Chapter 8

My injuries were serious.It wasn't just the burns from the fire, or the old pain in my leg, or my damaged voice.There were old wounds from my years at the reform house, too.And then there was the shadow on my lungs.Dante flew in a team of specialists from Switzerland. After a week of tests, they told him it wasn't hopeless. With the right treatment, I still had a fighting chance.While the doctors worked on me, I caught Dante wiping his eyes in the hallway more than once.The day I was discharged, I couldn't help teasing him."Well, at least now you can stop crying."Dante's ears turned red, but he argued with a straight face."Who was crying? I wasn't crying!"He sulked the whole way in the car, but in the end, he came with me to the Moretti estate.In just one month, the estate that had always been so lively looked almost abandoned.No one had trimmed the hedges in the courtyard. The birds Victoria kept had gone quiet.I pushed open the door and saw Alessandro on the phone, looki

Chapter 9

By the end of summer, with Dante's help, I had officially taken over the Conti family business.The old Conti name and the Marino family's power overseas joined forces, and every voice that had doubted me went quiet overnight.The Morettis tried to fight back, but the evidence I released kept them too busy to do anything.One video after another went viral.How Victoria made me take the fall for her and got me sent to the reform house in the mountains.How Alessandro locked me up so I couldn't compete.How Matteo, for Victoria's sake, had people come after me behind my back.One by one, every piece of it was laid out for the whole world to see. The Moretti family's legitimate businesses lost their partners one after another, and their share prices kept falling.The Moretti family cut Alessandro loose. He was likely facing prison time.He called me again and again. I never picked up."Bella, are you done? It's time to go."Dante stood in the doorway, calling out to me in no hurry at all

Chapter 10

I never expected Alessandro to be waiting for me outside the estate.In just a few days, he looked completely worn down."Isabella, I need to ask you for something.""For the sake of everything we were to each other, can you help me explain?""Don't call me that. Victoria is your sister. You and I have nothing to do with each other anymore!"I pulled away from his touch, disgusted, and spoke coldly."Isabella, please help me. If you don't, the police are really going to take me away!""I was blinded by Victoria before. You're the one who's really my family!""I'll replant your peach tree and your roses for you, okay? From now on, I'll treat you right!"It was true. Before Victoria came along, Alessandro had been good to me.All I had to do was close my eyes, and I could remember every little moment.If the old Alessandro had said this to me, I would have been over the moon.But I didn't need it anymore."Alessandro, are you doing this for me, or for yourself?""Back then, you were good

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