Valeria's POV

Hours ago, I had stood in front of Aurelio's lieutenant and made a decision that I knew would change the way people looked at me. The old version of myself would have hated what I was doing. The woman who had once believed that everything could be solved through patience, conversations, and trying to understand people would have looked at the person sitting across from me and wondered how I had reached this point.

But that woman no longer existed. Not after ...