The Bride He Refused to Lose
"What do you want, Amelia? State your endgame."
Amelia looked directly into the camera lens, her expression cold and unyielding. "I want exactly what was violently stolen from my family's bloodline twenty-four years ago."
"You have already taken enough blood from this city," Lorenzo countered.
"No," Amelia whispered, her smile widening into something truly monstrous. "I have merely been collecting the interest on a debt. Tonight, I collect the principal."
The master countdown on the wall violently flashed, the numbers changing.
**04:17**
Suddenly, Matteo’s tactical communication hub violently buzzed in his hand. He answered the encrypted feed immediately. As the audio filtered through his ea