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CHAPTER 1

KIARA

I lay in Nino’s ared fro love? We’d made love Nino had toldfalse, just love

Nino raised my hand and pressed a kiss tome closely “Are you okay?”

I sht had been lifted offI hadn’t even dared to dream, much less hope for, was suddenly in my reach

“I’ aboutwithto me”

Nino swiped his thumb over s are not fate, or punishs just happen”

I shrugged “I know that now, or I think I do But when I was a young girl, Father always bla, and so did my brothers even when they hadoften enough, you just take it for the truth When Father hit ht I deserved it”

Nino’s body becaot what he deserved Luca didn’t give him an easy death”

I pushed idia always told me Father had been killed by a bullet to the head “Luca tortured him?”

Nino’s dark brows pulled together, his fingers ononce more “You didn’t know?”