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 71 - An Unexpected Alliance
Layla
The weight of the revelation—of the truth—hung over me like a heavy blanket. I’d never questioned why I’d never met my mother’s parents, her family. She’d claimed to be estranged, and I’d been ten when she died.
My father’s mother, my Nonna, had become my everything.
And I’d never questioned i...