Chapter
Chapters
Chapter 1 - Wedding Day
Chapter 2 - Divorce
Chapter 3 - Leaving Alaska
Chapter 4 - Saving a Life
Chapter 5 - She’s in Danger
Chapter 6 - Come with Me
Chapter 7 - The Wrong Room
Chapter 8 - Stitches
Chapter 9 - Who Is Marco?
Chapter 10 - Paternity Acts
Chapter 11 - Harsh Words
Chapter 12 - Aurora’s Offer
Chapter 13 - The Real Marco
Chapter 14 - Accusing Aldo
Chapter 15 - Aldo’s Anger
Chapter 16 - Layla’s Anger
Chapter 17 - The Kiss
Chapter 18 - Who’s the Father?
Chapter 19 - My Whole World
Chapter 20 - Paternity Test
Chapter 21 - Assassins
Chapter 22 - Where Is Eli?
Chapter 23 - Shooting
Chapter 24 - Eli’s Danger
Chapter 25 - There’s a Mole
Chapter 26 - Marco’s Feelings
Chapter 27 - A Needed Distraction
Chapter 28 - Aldo’s Truth
Chapter 29 - She Must Leave
Chapter 30 - Losing Everything
Chapter 31 - Do Your Duty
Chapter 32 - Kidnapped
Chapter 33 - We’re Friends
Chapter 34 - Trusting Instinct
Chapter 35 - The Truth About Eli
Chapter 36 - Moretti Knows
Chapter 37 - Self Defense Training
Chapter 38 - Return to Normal
Chapter 39 - Winning Her Back
Chapter 40 - Marco Is Alive
Chapter 41 - Eli and Aldo
Chapter 42 - Just Dinner
Chapter 43 - Bound by Bloodlines
Chapter 44 - Dottore Bennett
Chapter 45 - Meeting Marco
Chapter 46 - The Ball
Chapter 47 - The Walk
Chapter 48 - The Dance
Chapter 49 - A New Savior
Chapter 50 - The Stranger’s Story
Chapter 51 - A Too-Familiar Face
Chapter 52 - Ethan’s Truth
Chapter 53 - Attack at the Hospital
Chapter 54 - Saving the Don
Chapter 55 - Setting a Trap
Chapter 56 - Vasco’s Truth
Chapter 57 - Caring for the Don
Chapter 58 - What Could Have Been
Chapter 59 - Tears of Sorrow
Chapter 60 - The Ultimate Betrayal
Chapter 61 - Taken by Marco
Chapter 62 - Negotiations
Chapter 63 - Escaping the Estate
Chapter 64 - The Traitor Falls
Chapter 65 - War Amongst Families
Chapter 66 - A New Threat
Chapter 67 - Layla’s Stand
Chapter 68 - Witness Protection
Chapter 69 - Ethan’s Offer
Chapter 70 - The Heir’s Hair
Chapter 71 - An Unexpected Alliance
Chapter 72 - Family Ties
Chapter 73 - War Approaches
Chapter 74 - We’ll Bring a War
Chapter 75 - The War Rages On
Chapter 76 - The Trap
Chapter 77 - The Plan in Motion
Chapter 78 - The Final Battle
Chapter 79 - Aurora’s Reckoning
Chapter 80 - The Fallout
Chapter 81 - The Calm After the Storm
Chapter 82 - The City Awakens
Chapter 83 - The Wedding
Chapter 84 - Return to reality
Chapter 85 - Father and son
Chapter 86 - Layla’s questions
Chapter 87 - Aldo’s answer
Chapter 88 - Aldo’s meeting
Chapter 89 - Damsel in distress
Chapter 90 - Almost like friends
Chapter 91 - The end of peace
Chapter 92 - Escalating violence
Chapter 93 - People like us
Chapter 94 - A new job
Chapter 95 - Discreet meetings
Chapter 96 - Together
Chapter 97 - Secrets uncovered
Chapter 98 - Conflicting loyalties
Chapter 99 - Girl friends
Chapter 100 - The attack
Chapter 101 - New connection
Chapter 102 - The date
Chapter 103 - Digging deeper
Chapter 104 - A new leader
Chapter 105 - Hit back hard
Chapter 106 - A war without an enemy
Chapter 107 - New evidence
Chapter 108 - A new level
Chapter 109 - Missing
Chapter 110 - The truth revealed
Chapter 111 - How could she
Chapter 112 - The call
Chapter 113 - The bluff
Chapter 114 - Seeing Reason
Chapter 115 - Choosing a Side
Chapter 116 - A Growing Darkness
Chapter 117 - With Me or Against Me?
Chapter 118 - A Working Plan
Chapter 119 - Self Doubts
Chapter 120 - Desperate Times
Chapter 121 - Ethan’s Revelation
Chapter 122 - Facing Vanessa
Chapter 123 - Finding Eli
Chapter 124 - A Fear Like No Other
Chapter 125 - Interrogation
Chapter 126 - The Choice
Chapter 127- Forced Separation
Chapter 128 - A Child’s Worries
Chapter 129 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 130 - Darker Days Ahead
Chapter 131 - Wanting to Hide Away
Chapter 132 - Lonely Nights
Chapter 133 - Desperate for Help
Chapter 134 - In-Laws
Chapter 135 - Help From Across The Country
Chapter 136 - The Twins
Chapter 137 - Digging Deeper
Chapter 138 - A Cold Truth
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Chapter 14 - Accusing Aldo
Layla
After work, I showered and changed, then headed down to the courtyard garden I’d discovered on our first day. The last thing I expected was to find Aldo talking to Eli. But that’s exactly what I saw when I entered the interior garden—Aldo crouched beside my son.
I hurried down the winding whi...