“Valentina, what condemned you completely was the fact that only we—including you—knew about the invisible house.”
“Why did you decide to give me a chance?”
“This is not a chance. You still have to prove your loyalty. He gains and loses everything by feeling anything for you, and I do not know about the De Luca family, but the Vitales do everything for one another. If I need to stop him, I will. My father would expect that from us.”
“He is balancing between seeing me as a traitor and still desiring me, but sooner or later he will have to fall to one side.”
Resentment sharpens my voice.
“He crossed every limit today, and stopping him will not change the obvious consequence that I would never return to him. He married the law, so let it be a good wife to him.”
“You know he did it delib
