Proposal of Blood and Betrayal
"She wanted me to think she was the villain, the cruel stepmother, so I wouldn't have to carry the hatred of my two brothers. She was sacrificing her own reputation to save my heart. But the grappa? That was laced with more than just ghost peppers. I overheard the doctor talking on the phone. It was cut with a powerful pharmaceutical that destroys short-term memory. You weren't trying to scare me; you were trying to render me permanently compliant, to erase everything I knew about the family, including the real location of the kill-switch."
Santino finally looked up, his face pale and sick with horror. "That's impossible. We only—"
"You only what, Santino?" I pressed, stepping toward him, cr
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