LOVE BOUND
Luca had been there for every version of me the angry boy, the defiant teenager, the man who swore he’d never sit in my father’s chair.
“You didn’t stop her,” he said.
“No.” My voice came out quiet. Flat. “I didn’t.”
Silence stretched between us, thick and familiar. Luca had watched me fight my father at every turn, watched me reject the blood, the legacy, the expectations that came with my last name. He’d watched me believe I could carve something cleaner out of a dirty inheritance.
He exhaled slowly. “You love her.”
The word hit harder than any bullet ever could.
“Yes.”
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