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“We’ll be very careful. A big delivery day is coming for the restaurant, right? We’ll just use the food truck.”

“Good idea. But there’s actually another thing I want to do.”

“Sure, what is it?” Adriano’s gaze holds mine.

“I want to be the one who starts the fire. Is that too risky or not?”

His brow creases. “It’s a little bit more complicated, but yes, it can be done. Are you sure about it? You can still change your mind about the whole thing. I don’t want to force you into anything.”

“I want to do it. That’s all. It’s like starting a new life and ending with the old one. I want to feel free.”

My house was my safe place after Filippo, but he’s gone now. Forever, thanks to Adriano.

Actually, it’s him—my husband. He’s my new sanctuary now, and it doesn’t matter where we are, as long as we’re together. With him, I feel safe and free.

“We’ll have to be quick,” he says. “Matteo won’tbelieve it if we take too long. He knows I’m the first person you’d reach out to. It makes no sense that you’d be avoiding me for no reason and that you wouldn’t even try to talk to me about it.”

“What if he figures out it’s a trap?”

“I hope he won’t. You and your family have been fighting to keep your neighborhood and your home. That house is precious to you, and you wouldn’t burn it just to see if he falls for it.”

I chuckle. “I have no idea how I’m going to explain this to my parents. They’ll be devastated. They’re already upset they can’t go back home.”

“We can let them believe the story about an enemy. They know who I am. Someone getting to the house was always a risk. And we moved anyway, so that’s how you’ll explain the fact you have all the important stuff with you.”

“I know. I just hate upsetting them.”

“I’m pretty sure they would give up everything so that you and the twins are safe. Your father was already willing to do it for you.”

“Yeah, you’re right.” I hope they’ll understand.

But if our plan works and Matteo walks straight into a trap, my babies’ lives will be much happier. We won’t have to stress too much or wait for the other shoe to drop. Mafia life willnever be easy, but we’ll all be safer without Matteo anywhere near us.

“I’d do anything for our babies,” I say.

“Me too.” Adriano places his hand over my stomach, a small smile quirking his lips. “And for you too.”

I stare deep into his eyes, and I believe him.

I have no reason not to.

CHAPTER 15

Matteo

I sit down in my chair and groan. The computer screen doesn’t show any alerts. My men haven’t found Chiara, and I’m not surprised. I don’t have enough manpower to find a needle in a haystack, and that’s exactly what one person is in a city this big.

It doesn’t help that I have to avoid my father’s and Adriano’s men too. I couldn’t even send someone to watch Chiara’s house, just her parents’, because it was too complicated for my men to get there past a certain neighborhood and there weren’t enough of them.

And then we lost her parents too because they left too far outside the city, and there was no point in trying to follow them to some other town or across the country since Chiara wasn’t with them.

I run my hand over my face.

It’s fucking over. My plan has fallen through because I was stupid enough to believe Chiara’s lies. I know absolutely nothing about pregnancies. How was I supposed to figure out that she had found something to cut herself with and that the blood wasn’t pregnancy-related?

My guards were right there in the dining room, and they didn’t see a damn thing either. She definitely wasn’t bleeding before she got there, so it must’ve happened right in front of me.

Somehow, she’d cut herself enough to bleed like that, without making a sound of discomfort. Who the fuck is she and what is she made of? No one would’ve expected something like that.

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