sia

ld feel the weight of three years of my defiance in it. Then, a voice

ess

rch of the formidable Moretti Group, was enough to make the dam insid

Dad. I

. It was a demand. The voice of a man used

nable to say Dante's name. "I mad

to hide the fury simmering beneath it. "You ran from your duty. You r

ed out. "And I'm

my, Elara. The rumors. The baby that wasn't

ed, but this time it was different.

is voice dropping to a low, lethal growl. "He laid

I whi

in his tone, "is going to learn the difference between a fleeting name and

over me. I was no longer Alessia Rinaldi, the clueless, betraye

I need to gather my people. The right people. I will be th

. Twenty-four more hours in the house of t

d of ice forming in m

member that. Act the part you've been playing. The loving wife. Just

ne wen

cold glass a conduit for the steel flooding my veins. I wiped my face,

more

, my entire marriage had been a performance. I was