She Made Way for His Lover, but He Wants a Do-Over
Five years into marriage, Silvia Serra becomes both Dante Valenti's most lethal weapon and his most invisible presence.
She shields him from bullets. She crosses a freezing river for him. Her scars accumulate, and his response is an assumption that it is how things are meant to be.
In time, Dante grows repulsed by the violence clinging to her. He derides her lack of charm and gives his warmth to another woman instead.
He allows others to grind down her dignity, and with a new lover in his arms, he openly stains her name.
Silvia tolerates it so she can continue guarding him.
Everyone mocks her as if she's numb to it all, driven away again and again, but never truly gone.
Then comes the night of pounding rain. Cast aside without ceremony, Silvia erases every sign she was ever there and leaves with finality.
Dante treats it as nothing more than sulking, convinced she will return within three days.
Later, the once-untouchable Don was seen on his knees at Silvia's feet, stripped of all pride, begging her to turn back and look at him just once.