[Lilia]

De Luca. That was the name I had heard before from Val, the one responsible for the ambush at the hospital. But now, as I think back on it, Vittorio just wanted to see me—to confirm that his granddaughter was alive. I don’t know what held him back then, why he let me go with Kael. Things might have been easier if he had taken me that time. I wouldn’t have fallen for a man I wasn’t supposed to. Not when he only sees me as an object for his carnal pleasure and nothing more.

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