Chapter 49 Vitale
Vitale slept better than he had in years.
That alone told him everything he needed to know.
He woke before dawn, the estate quiet in the particular way only powerful houses knew—guards rotating silently, servants moving like shadows, the world outside still unaware that its balance had shifted ove...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Blood That Was Not Chosen
2. Chapter 2 Under the Chandeliers
3. Chapter 3 Ghosts Don’t Answer Questions
4. Chapter 4 Coffee and Paper Cuts
5. Chapter 5 The Waiting and the Return
6. Chapter 6 The Kind of Silence That Knows
7. Chapter 7 Dead Ends and Footsteps
8. Chapter 8 Don’t Turn Around
9. Chapter 9 Fault Lines
10. Chapter 10 Rules Are Made to Break
11. Chapter 11 Where the World Cannot Reach Them pt1
12. Chapter 12 Where the World Cannot Reach Them pt2
13. Chapter 13 Where the World Cannot Reach Them pt3
14. Chapter 14 Where the World Cannot Reach Them pt4
15. Chapter 15 What Freedom Feels Like
16. Chapter 16 A Mother’s Fear
17. Chapter 17 The Message pt1
18. Chapter 18 The Message pt2
19. Chapter 19 What Is Said, What Is Meant
20. Chapter 20 The City Tightens
21. Chapter 21 Sanctuary
22. Chapter 22 What silence means
23. Chapter 23 Collision
24. Chapter 24 What She Refused to Inherit
25. Chapter 25 The cage pt1
26. Chapter 26 The cage pt2
27. Chapter 27 The Silence After
28. Chapter 28 The Waiting
29. Chapter 29 The World Keeps Moving
30. Chapter 30 The Long Game
31. Chapter 31 The Picture That Spoke
32. Chapter 32 The letter
33. Chapter 33 The Day Before
34. Chapter 34 Ashes and Offers
35. Chapter 35 The man in the shadows.
36. Chapter 36 Nonna's house
37. Chapter 37 A l ittle too late
38. Chapter 38 The Weight of a Name
39. Chapter 39 The Day They Took Her Future
40. Chapter 40 The Room That Lied
41. Chapter 41 The Photograph That Bleeds
42. Chapter 42 The House Without Her
43. Chapter 43 What Remains When Love Leaves
44. Chapter 44 The Quiet Before the Vows
45. Chapter 45 The Quiet Before the Vow
46. Chapter 46 The Vows That Were Never Hers
47. Chapter 47 The Moment He Took Her Back
48. Chapter 48 The Things Mothers Do in Silence
49. Chapter 49 Vitale
50. Chapter 50 What Remains
51. Chapter 51 Where the World Cannot Reach
52. Chapter 52 The House That Did Not Exist
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