Valeria's POV

The message arrived three hours after Aurelio left Dante's mansion.

I had been sitting in my room, staring at the same page of a book for almost twenty minutes without understanding a single word, because my mind had not stopped since the moment I saw Aurelio sitting across from Dante.

Every possible explanation had crossed my mind, and none of them gave me any peace. Aurelio being inside Dante's home was not part of the plan, not something I had prepared for, not ...