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Mikhail:

Okay.

I want to see you.

Pietra:

How do you expect to do that?

Mikhail:

I can go to Rome with my men.

Pietra:

And start a war with my father?

Mikhail:

If it comes to that.

Pietra:

I don't want a war with my father. I don't want you to hurt my family. Can you understand this?

Mikhail:

It looks like you don’t want to see me.

Pietra:

I do.

I shouldn't, but God knows how much I want it and that's probably why it's driving me so crazy. But we can do this better than you arriving with an army at my door.

Mikhail:

How?

Pietra:

Can you get into Italy without my uncle knowing?

Mikhail:

I have my ways.

Pietra:

I'll think of a way to get out of the house so we can meet.

Mikhail:

I will wait for your information.

I threw my cell phone aside and sank into the pillow. I was sure I had agreed to the biggest stupidity of my life. I couldn't meet him, but still, I wanted it more than anything else in the world.

Chapter seventeen

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