
She arrived at his estate prepared for cruelty. What she got was silence — and a man who watched her like she was the most dangerous variable in the room. Valentina came to survive a forced marriage to a mafia boss. She ...
Ch. 9: The Portrait's Name
Ch. 10: The Anomaly
Ch. 11: What Nico Knows
Ch. 12: Two in the Morning
Ch. 13: The Sicilian Trip
Ch. 14: The Return
Ch. 15: Milan
Ch. 16: The Paper
Ch. 17: Gia's Warning
Ch. 18: Dante
Ch. 19: Five Years
Ch. 20: The Almost-Mistake
Ch. 21: The Map
Ch. 22: The Last Piece
Ch. 23: Not to Salvatore
Ch. 24: She Goes to Luca
Ch. 25: Verified
Ch. 26: The New Arrangement
Ch. 27: The First Admission
Ch. 28: The Move She Made Without Him
Ch. 29: What Nico Told Her
Ch. 30: The Close Call
Ch. 31: The Line They're Approaching
Ch. 32: A Morning in Tuscany
Ch. 33: The Chapel
Ch. 34: The Late Night
Ch. 35: The Shoulder
Ch. 36: What He Told Nico
Ch. 37: Dante's Corner
Ch. 38: What He Said to Dante
Ch. 39: She Asks
Ch. 40: What They Are Building
Ch. 41: He Notices
Ch. 42: The Phone Call
Ch. 43: Closing the Distance
Ch. 44: Three Days
Ch. 45: Morning
Ch. 46: Salvatore's Table
Ch. 47: The Complication
Ch. 48: What She Does
Ch. 49: When He Finds Out What She Did
Ch. 50: Salvatore Cornered
Ch. 51: After
Ch. 52: The House Without Urgency
Ch. 53: She Goes to Him
Ch. 54: First Intimacy
Ch. 55: Morning After
Ch. 56: The Estate Changes
Ch. 57: Nico's Observation
Ch. 58: She Calls Her Father
Ch. 59: The Last Intimacy
Ch. 60: What She Told Gia