Clara finally turned.
And the fear in her eyes told me she already knew exactly what I was about to ask.
“Who is Rosie’s father?”
The corridor went silent.
There were moments when silence was merely the absence of sound.
This was not one of them.
This silence had weight.
Clara’s fingers tightened around Rosie’s hand.
The child looked up at her mother, then at me, clearly aware that something important had happened even if she didn’t understand what.
Clara’s lips parted.
No answer came.
I watched her carefully.
In my world, hesitation was information.
A glance toward a door could reveal an escape plan.
A hand moving toward a pocket could become a threat.
A breath held half a second too long could expose a lie.
Clara Bennett was standing six feet away from me, holding the hand of a three-year-old child, and yet every instinct I had developed over years of dealing with dangerous men told me the same thing.
She was deciding how much truth I could survive.
“I asked you a question.”
Her eyes lifted to mine.
“I know.”
“Then answer it.”
Rosie shifted impatiently.
“Mommy?”
Clara crouched in front of her.
Her voice changed immediately.
Soft.
Careful.
“Sweetheart, go downstairs and find Mrs.
Hall.”
Rosie frowned.
“But you said—”
“I know what I said.”
“Am I in trouble?”
“No.”
The answer came too quickly.
Rosie looked at me.
“He said I’m not.”
Clara closed her eyes for the briefest second.
Even now, the child had found a way to complicate things.
“No,” Clara whispered.
“You’re not in trouble.”
Rosie still didn’t move.
She looked from her mother to me again.
Then her mouth formed that stubborn little line.
The expression hit me harder this time.
I hated that.
I hated how easily something so small could disturb three years of deliberate forgetting.
Clara saw me looking.
Her face tightened.
“Rosie.”
The child sighed with the theatrical disappointment of someone being excluded from a meeting she believed concerned her personally.
Then she walked down the corridor toward the stairs.
I waited until the sound of her small footsteps disappeared.
Clara did too.
Only when we were alone did she speak.
“You shouldn’t have asked that in front of her.”
My expression hardened.
“You don’t get to tell me what I should ask in my own house.”
“I know.”
“Do you?”
Her jaw tightened.
That, too, was familiar.
Not the face.
The refusal to bend.
For months, Clara had been nearly invisible to me.
Efficient.
Quiet.
Never late.
Never careless.
She worked in the household staff, mostly mornings and afternoons, and kept her distance from the parts of the estate where business was conducted.
I knew she had a daughter.
I knew Mrs.
Hall sometimes allowed Rosie into the kitchen when childcare arrangements failed.
Beyond that, I had never paid much attention.
Now I wondered whether that lack of attention had been carefully engineered.
I stepped closer.
“Who is her father?”
Clara looked toward the empty staircase.
Then back at me.
“He isn’t here.”
“That wasn’t my question.”
“I can’t tell you.”
The words were so quiet I almost thought I had imagined them.
Then anger arrived.
Not loud anger.
Mine rarely was.
The kind that came slowly, settling into the bloodstream.
“You can’t?”
“No.”
“Or you won’t?”
Her eyes flickered.
“That depends on whether there’s a difference.”
I gave a short humorless laugh.
“There is when you work for me.”
Her face changed.
Not much.
But enough.
“For you,” she said.
The correction surprised me.
“What?”
“I work in your house, Mr.
Vitali.
I don’t belong to you.”
There it was.
For the first time, the obedient employee disappeared.
What stood in front of me was someone else entirely.
Someone sharper.
Someone who had spent months measuring every word she said around me.
I studied her.
“You’ve been afraid of me since you walked into that room.”
“Yes.”
At least she didn’t lie.
“But not because Rosie trespassed.”
“No.”
“So we agree on that.”
“Yes.”
My voice dropped.
“Then tell me what you’re afraid I’ll discover.”
Her breathing changed.
Barely.
But I saw it.
Before she could answer, footsteps sounded below.
Mrs.
Hall’s voice carried faintly from the staircase.
“Rosie?
Come along, sweetheart.”
Clara glanced down the corridor again.
She was buying time.
I had spent my life watching men do the same before difficult negotiations.
She folded her hands in front of her.
“You knew someone three years ago.”
It wasn’t a question.
Something in my chest went still.
“Careful.”
“I’m not trying to offend you.”
“You’re failing.”
She swallowed.
“You knew a woman.”
I said nothing.
“She used to sit with you at a café on Via della Rosa.”
My eyes narrowed.
That café was gone now.
Closed two years ago after the owner died.
More importantly, no one in my household knew about it.
Not because it was secret.
Because it had belonged to a version of my life I had never discussed with anyone.
I stepped closer.
“How do you know that?”
Clara’s face had gone pale again.
“She told me.”
The corridor disappeared.
Not literally.
But everything outside those two words became irrelevant.
She told me.
Not hearsay.
Not observation.
Not gossip.
I felt something sharp move under my ribs.
“Who?”
Clara gave me a look that said she couldn’t believe I had asked.
My voice became colder.
“Say her name.”
Her throat moved.
“Isabella.”
The name struck like a gunshot in an empty room.
I hadn’t heard it spoken aloud in this house.
Not once.
Three years ago, I had made certain of that.
Anyone who knew enough not to mention her had been wise enough to obey.
And the few people who had known her personally were no longer part of my daily life.
Yet Clara Bennett stood before me and said the name as if she had every right to use it.
Isabella Moretti.
The woman who had sat across from me in a tiny corner café and criticized the way I arranged bread.
The woman who had laughed at my temper.
The woman who had looked directly into my face when everyone else around me had learned to lower their eyes.
The woman I had once believed would eventually become impossible to lose.
Until she vanished.
No farewell.
No explanation.
No body.
No proof.
Just absence.
I had spent the first six months searching.
Quietly at first.
Then violently.
I had pressured police officers.
Paid informants.
Broken alliances.
Followed false leads through three cities and across two borders.
Nothing.
After a year, everyone around me had stopped using the word missing.
They began using another word when they thought I couldn’t hear.
Dead.
I never accepted it.
I simply stopped asking.
There was a difference.
I stared at Clara.
“You knew Isabella.”
“Yes.”
“How?”
Clara didn’t answer.
I reached past her and opened the dressing-room door.
“Inside.”
Her eyes widened.
“I should get Rosie.”
“Mrs.
Hall has her.”
“She’s my daughter.”
“And no one is keeping you from her.
We’re going to talk for five minutes.”
“You don’t understand.”
“No,” I said.
“That is precisely the problem.”
For a moment I thought she would refuse.
Then she stepped into the room.
I closed the door behind us.
The mirror immediately caught both our reflections.
Mine.
Hers.
And the empty little stool where Rosie had been sitting minutes earlier.
Clara stared at it.
I did too.
“Start at the beginning.”
“There isn’t time.”
“Make time.”
Her hands clenched.
“She was my sister.”
I looked at her.
The room seemed to tilt.
“What?”
“Isabella was my half sister.”
The resemblance should have been obvious.
It wasn’t.
Clara was softer-featured.
Lighter hair.
Different coloring.
Different voice.
But once the idea existed, I saw fragments.
The angle of her cheek.
The shape of her eyes when she was afraid.
Not Isabella.
But blood.
My mind raced backward through every day Clara had worked under my roof.
Every moment I had passed her in a hallway without stopping.
Every morning she had brought fresh linens upstairs.
Every afternoon she had disappeared before evening.
She had been here.
Isabella’s sister had been inside my house.
For nearly a year.
“You applied here deliberately.”
Clara looked away.
“Yes.”
The admission landed heavily.
“Why?”
“I needed work.”
“Don’t insult me.”
“I did need work.”
“You could have worked anywhere.”
“I could have.”
“But you came here.”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Her voice dropped.
“Because Isabella asked me to.”
For several seconds, I couldn’t breathe.
I had heard threats delivered calmly.
I had watched men die without changing expression.
But this—
This split something open.
I turned toward her fully.
“She asked you to work here?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
Clara hesitated.
“Before she disappeared.”
Three years collapsed into one moment.
I saw Isabella across the café table.
Her fingers around a coffee cup.
Her hair lifting in the summer wind.
Her eyes narrowing when I refused to answer some question honestly.
Then another memory surfaced.
Our last night.
She had been distant.
Restless.
I had assumed she was angry because I had missed dinner.
I had arrived two hours late.
She had asked whether I trusted her.
I had said yes.
She had asked whether I would still trust her if she disappeared.
I had thought she was being dramatic.
I remembered laughing.
God.
I had laughed.
“What exactly did she tell you?”
Clara rubbed her thumb against her palm.
A nervous habit.
“She told me that if anything happened, I needed to watch you.”
My stare sharpened.
“Watch me?”
“She said you’d be in danger.”
I almost smiled.
Not because it was funny.
Because the concept was absurd.
People warned others about me.
They did not warn me about them.
“From whom?”
“She never said.”
“Then what was the point?”
“She thought she had more time.”
I walked away.
The room felt suddenly too small.
I moved toward the window, then stopped.
“What did she mean by ‘anything happened’?”
“She thought someone had found her.”
“Who?”
“I don’t know.”
“You expect me to believe that?”
“I expect you to believe she was terrified.”
That stopped me.
Isabella had been many things.
Stubborn.
Reckless.
Infuriating.
But not easily frightened.
If someone had frightened her badly enough to prepare her sister—
Then I had missed something.
A great deal of something.
Clara continued.
“She made me promise not to contact you immediately.”
“Why?”
“Because she didn’t know who she could trust around you.”
My gaze snapped to hers.
“Around me?”
“Yes.”
“Meaning?”
“Someone close to you.”
I laughed once.
This time there was no amusement at all.
“I had twenty men close to me then.”
“She didn’t tell me which one.”
“How convenient.”
“You think this has been convenient for me?”
Her composure cracked.
Finally.
“Do you think I enjoyed bringing my child into a house where half the men downstairs carry guns beneath their jackets?
Do you think I liked lying every day?
Watching you walk through rooms and wondering whether you recognized something in Rosie before I was ready?”
I turned slowly.
“Before you were ready for what?”
She froze.
Too late.
The question hung between us.
I moved toward her.
“Clara.”
She looked away.
“Before you were ready for what?”
Nothing.
I stopped less than three feet from her.
“My patience is ending.”
“So is mine.”
Her eyes flashed.
And for one second, I saw Isabella again.
Not in her face.
In her defiance.
It angered me more.
“You came here because Isabella told you to watch me.”
“Yes.”
“You hid that you were her sister.”
“Yes.”
“You deliberately kept Rosie away from me.”
Clara said nothing.
“That one,” I said quietly, “is the part I’m interested in.”
Her lips pressed together.
I felt the answer approaching before she spoke.
“No.”
I frowned.
“I didn’t ask a question.”
“But you’re about to.”
I watched her.
She stared back.
For the first time since she arrived, fear and determination existed equally in her face.
“Rosie is not Isabella’s daughter.”
The words came so quickly it took my mind a second to catch up.
I hadn’t asked.
I had thought it.
Apparently Clara had seen it.
My expression must have changed.
She shook her head.
“No.”
“You expect me to believe you can read my mind now?”
“No.
I expect you to look at her and think what anyone who knew Isabella would think.”
I walked toward the mirror.
The child’s image seemed almost still there.
Those fingers at her temples.
That expression.
The lowered chin.
I hated the next question before I asked it.
“Then why does she look like her?”
“Because Isabella was her aunt.”
“Children don’t usually resemble their aunts that strongly.”
“Sometimes they do.”
I looked at Clara’s reflection.
She wouldn’t meet my eyes.
Lie.
Not necessarily a complete lie.
But incomplete.
I turned.
“Who is Rosie’s father?”
Her shoulders fell slightly.
Back to the first question.
Only now the room had changed.
I knew who Clara was.
I knew why she had come.
And I knew Rosie’s resemblance had a name.
Isabella.
Clara whispered, “You need to stop asking.”
“Why?”
“Because the answer is going to make everything worse.”
“That has never stopped me.”
“It should.”
My voice went quiet.
“Who?”
She looked at me.
Then something happened downstairs.
A crash.
Not a dropped plate.
Not the ordinary breakage of a kitchen.
This was heavier.
Followed immediately by a man shouting.
Then another sound.
A single sharp crack.
A gunshot.
Clara went rigid.
I was already moving.
“Stay here.”
“No.”
She followed me into the corridor.
I turned.
“Stay with Rosie.”
“I am not leaving you alone if—”
“If what?”
She stopped.
I saw it instantly.
She knew something about the possibility of violence in this house.
More than she had said.
Another gunshot sounded below.
Closer.
Men shouted.
Then the security alarm began pulsing through the estate.
Not the fire alarm.
The internal breach signal.
I reached inside my jacket.
Clara stared at the weapon in my hand.
“Where is Rosie?”
“Mrs.
Hall took her toward the kitchen.”
My stomach tightened.
The kitchen was near the east service entrance.
The direction the shouting had come from.
I was moving before she finished the sentence.
Clara ran beside me.
“Lorenzo—”
The use of my first name barely registered.
We reached the stairs.
One of my security men appeared below.
Marco.
Blood streaked the side of his face.
“Sir!”
“What happened?”
“East entrance.
Two men got through.”
“Got through?”
“They had access codes.”
That stopped me for half a second.
Access codes.
Codes changed weekly.
Only household staff and inner security possessed them.
Clara looked at me.
Someone close to you.
Isabella’s warning returned like a blade sliding between ribs.
“Where are they?”
“One went toward the service hall.
We lost the other.”
“And Rosie?”
Marco’s expression shifted.
That was enough.
Clara saw it too.
She ran past me.
“Clara!”
She didn’t stop.
I followed.
We reached the lower corridor.
A chair lay overturned near the kitchen.
A tray had shattered across the floor.
One of the household guards was unconscious against the wall.
Mrs.
Hall stood trembling near the pantry.
Alone.
Clara nearly collided with her.
“Where is Rosie?”
Mrs.
Hall was crying.
“I’m sorry.”
Clara grabbed her arms.
“Where is she?”
“He took her.”
Everything stopped.
Not slowly.
Completely.
Clara made a broken sound.
“Who?”
“A man.
I thought he was one of the electricians.
He had the uniform.
He—he called her by name.”
My grip tightened around the gun.
“Which way?”
Mrs.
Hall pointed toward the garden doors.
Clara ran.
I caught her around the waist before she reached them.
“Let me go!”
“You’ll get yourself killed.”
“My daughter!”
“I know.”
“You don’t know anything!”
She fought harder than I expected.
Fear gave people strength.
So did love.
“Marco!”
I shouted.
He appeared at the corridor entrance.
“Seal the grounds.
No vehicles out.
Check cameras.
Drones.
Everything.”
“Yes, sir.”
Clara stopped fighting.
But only because something had changed in her face.
She was staring through the glass doors.
At the terrace.
A small red object lay on the stone.
Rosie’s hair ribbon.
Clara tore free and reached it first.
She picked it up.
Her hands shook violently.
Beneath the ribbon was a folded piece of paper.
I saw it at the same time she did.
“Don’t.”
She snatched it.
Opened it.
Read.
Her face changed.
“What does it say?”
She didn’t answer.
I took the note from her.
Three lines.
No signature.
IF YOU WANT THE GIRL ALIVE,
BRING LORENZO TO THE OLD BELL TOWER.
COME ALONE.
I read it twice.
Then I looked at Clara.
“You know the place.”
She closed her eyes.
“Yes.”
“How?”
No answer.
“Clara.”
“Isabella took me there once.”
A cold sensation spread through me.
“When?”
“The week before she disappeared.”
Everything kept returning to that week.
“What is at the tower?”
“I don’t know.”
“You’re lying again.”
“I swear I don’t know.”
“Then why take you there?”
Clara’s eyes filled.
“She gave me something.”
At last.
Another hidden piece.
“What?”
She looked toward the men gathering in the corridor.
Then lowered her voice.
“A key.”
“To what?”
“She never told me.”
“Where is it?”
Clara’s expression answered before her mouth did.
I stared at her.
“Where?”
“In Rosie’s necklace.”
My blood went cold.
The thin silver chain.
I had seen it.
Rosie wore it beneath her dress.
A tiny round pendant.
“Was she wearing it this morning?”
Clara nodded.
“Yes.”
The kidnapping suddenly made sense in a new and worse way.
Maybe they hadn’t taken Rosie to force me somewhere.
Maybe they had taken her because she carried something Isabella had hidden three years ago.
Something important enough for men to invade my estate.
Something important enough to wait years for.
“What does the pendant open?”
“I don’t know.”
“Who knows?”
Clara looked at me.
Then at the note.
“Maybe whoever took her.”
Marco approached quickly.
“We have footage.”
We moved into the security room.
A monitor displayed the east garden.
At 9:17, a white service van approached the outer gate.
Correct credentials.
Correct temporary authorization.
The driver wore a cap.
The second man never looked directly at the camera.
They entered the estate with disturbing ease.
One attacked the guard near the service corridor.
The other moved inside.
Then the feed skipped.
“Why did it cut?”
“Camera system rebooted remotely.”
“From where?”
Marco hesitated.
“Internal terminal.”
There it was again.
Someone inside.
The footage resumed thirty-eight seconds later.
A man crossed the garden carrying Rosie.
She wasn’t struggling.
That detail hit Clara hardest.
“Why isn’t she fighting?”
I leaned closer.
The man carried her on one hip.
Rosie’s arms were around his neck.
Not because she had been subdued.
Because she trusted him.
Clara’s face drained.
“No.”
“What?”
She moved toward the screen.
“No, no, no.”
“Do you recognize him?”
The camera angle shifted.
The man turned slightly.
Cap low.
Face partly obscured.
But not completely.
Clara gripped the desk.
I looked at her.
“Who is he?”
Her breathing became shallow.
“Pause it,” she whispered.
Marco froze the image.
The man’s profile remained grainy.
Jaw.
Nose.
Dark hair under the cap.
Nothing particularly distinctive.
Until he turned enough for the camera to catch his left ear.
A small scar ran from the upper edge toward his temple.
Clara stumbled backward.
“What?”
She shook her head.
“This isn’t possible.”
“Who is he?”
She whispered a name.
“Daniel.”
I stared at her.
“Who is Daniel?”
Her eyes met mine.
“Rosie’s father.”
The room went quiet.
Marco looked between us.
I barely heard him.
Something else had my attention.
Rosie’s father.
Alive.
Known to Clara.
Apparently trusted by Rosie.
And somehow connected to Isabella.
I turned on Clara.
“You said he wasn’t here.”
“He wasn’t supposed to be.”
“You knew he was alive.”
“Yes.”
“Who is he?”
Her face twisted.
“He was someone Isabella trusted.”
“How well?”
“Very.”
Something ugly moved through me.
“How well?”
Clara’s eyes flashed.
“Not like that.”
I hadn’t realized what I was implying until she answered.
My jaw tightened.
“Then explain.”
“She met him before she met you.”
“How?”
“I don’t know exactly.
He helped her with something.
After that, they stayed in contact.”
“What kind of something?”
“She never said.”
Of course.
Always the same answer.
She never said.
I looked at the frozen image.
“Why take his own daughter?”
Clara pressed both hands against her mouth.
Then slowly lowered them.
“Because he isn’t supposed to know she’s his.”
I turned.
“What?”
“I never told him.”
“Why?”
“Isabella told me not to.”
That name again.
Everything led back to her.
“You obeyed your sister about the father of your own child?”
“She knew things I didn’t.”
“Apparently everyone did.”
I turned away, rage building.
At Isabella.
At Clara.
At myself.
At three years of being surrounded by answers that had somehow remained invisible.
Then Marco said something from behind me.
“Sir.”
His voice had changed.
I looked at him.
He was staring at another monitor.
“What?”
“There’s more.”
The security team had recovered a second camera angle.
This one from the outer wall.
Daniel carried Rosie across the lawn toward the white van.
Then, before reaching it, he stopped.
He looked back toward the house.
Directly at the camera.
For the first time, his entire face was visible.
And my body forgot how to move.
The scar near the temple.
The eyes.
The mouth.
I had seen that face before.
Not often.
But enough.
Three years ago.
In photographs Isabella had kept hidden in the back of a drawer.
I had discovered them by accident.
When I asked who the man was, she had taken the photographs away so quickly that I assumed he had been an old lover.
She denied it.
I hadn’t believed her.
I had been jealous.
Stupidly, pointlessly jealous.
I had almost forgotten him.
Until now.
I leaned closer to the screen.
Clara was watching me.
“You recognize him.”
It wasn’t a question.
“Yes.”
“From where?”
“Isabella had photographs.”
Clara looked genuinely confused.
“She did?”
“She said he was no one important.”
A strange expression crossed Clara’s face.
“That’s impossible.”
“Why?”
“She barely knew what he looked like.”
I stared at her.
“What are you talking about?”
Clara shook her head slowly.
“She told me Daniel never allowed photographs.”
“Then why did she have six of them?”
Clara’s face changed again.
“Six?”
“Yes.”
“Doing what?”
I thought back.
The drawer.
The photographs.
One outside a train station.
One near a black car.
One at a marina.
One entering a building.
None posed.
None smiling.
My stomach tightened.
“She didn’t take them as memories.”
Clara whispered, “No.”
“She was watching him.”
“Yes.”
The realization became colder by the second.
Isabella hadn’t known Daniel socially.
She had been investigating him.
Following him.
Photographing him.
And somehow he became connected to Clara.
Connected to Rosie.
Connected to me.
The security-room door opened.
One of my men entered carrying a small envelope.
“Found this beneath the garden gate.”
He handed it to me.
No stamp.
No name.
Just one word written across the front.
LORENZO.
I opened it.
Inside was a photograph.
An old one.
Three years old at least.
I knew because Isabella was in it.
My heart stopped.
She stood near the bell tower mentioned in the note.
Alive.
Smiling faintly.
Next to her was Daniel.
And between them stood another man.
I stared at him.
The room blurred at the edges.
Impossible.
The third man was me.
Or someone who looked exactly like me.
Same height.
Same hair.
Same face.
Even the scar near my right eyebrow.
Except I had never been to that tower.
Not once.
I turned the photograph over.
Four words were written on the back.
HE STILL DOESN’T KNOW.
Below them was a date.
Three years ago.
Two days after Isabella disappeared.
Clara read over my shoulder.
Her hand flew to her mouth.
“That can’t be you.”
“It isn’t.”
Marco stepped closer.
“Sir…”
I barely heard him.
Because beneath the date was another line.
Smaller.
Almost hidden along the edge.
I brought the photograph closer.
The handwriting was Isabella’s.
I knew it instantly.
I had seen hundreds of notes in that hand.
Shopping lists.
Angry reminders.
Half-finished letters.
Words she used to leave beside my coffee when she had already gone to work.
My fingers went numb.
The line read:
If Lorenzo ever sees this, tell him the child is the proof.
The child.
I looked at Clara.
She was already shaking her head.
“No.”
“What does that mean?”
“I don’t know.”
“The child is the proof of what?”
“I don’t know.”
“Stop saying that!”
“I don’t know!”
Her voice broke.
Then she froze.
Not because of me.
Because something was happening on the monitor.
Marco turned.
The camera feed from the east gate had returned live.
A figure stood outside the sealed entrance.
A woman.
No vehicle.
No escort.
Just a woman in a dark coat, facing the camera.
My chest tightened.
The angle was poor.
Her face was partially shadowed.
Marco reached for the zoom.
The image enlarged.
Clara screamed.
Not loudly.
A strangled, disbelieving sound.
I couldn’t move.
The woman lifted her face.
Three years collapsed.
The café.
The bread.
The questions.
The disappearance.
Every night I had imagined a grave I couldn’t find.
Every morning I had trained myself not to think of her.
There she was.
Older.
Thinner.
A pale scar running across her cheek.
But alive.
Isabella.
Alive.
Standing outside my gate.
She looked directly into the camera.
Then slowly lifted one hand.
In it was Rosie’s silver necklace.
Clara rushed toward the monitor.
“Where is Rosie?”
As if Isabella could hear her through the screen.
As if the camera were a window.
Isabella lowered the necklace.
Then a guard’s radio crackled.
A voice came through.
“Mr.
Vitali?”
Not one of my men.
A woman’s voice.
Hers.
My blood turned to ice.
Marco grabbed the radio.
“How are you on this channel?”
Static.
Then Isabella spoke again.
“Lorenzo.”
The sound of my name in her voice after three years nearly broke something inside me.
I took the radio.
“Where is the child?”
A pause.
Then:
“Safe.”
“Give her back.”
“I will.”
“Where is Daniel?”
Another pause.
“He was never her father.”
Clara went completely still.
I stared at the radio.
“What did you say?”
Isabella’s voice softened.
“I’m sorry, Clara.”
Clara’s eyes widened in horror.
“Isabella?”
Silence.
Then Isabella said the words that rearranged the entire world.
“Rosie is not Clara’s daughter.”
I looked at Clara.
She looked at me.
Neither of us breathed.
The radio crackled again.
And Isabella’s final words before the signal died were barely louder than a whisper.
“She’s ours, Lorenzo.”
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Source: Stories of Destiny · Nhan Nhan
