na
marble of the East Wing corridor s
ath with Chiara clinging to my arm, arriving late to the morning coffee ritual. We had found Val
ner blood against the sneers of the high-ranking women. I had wanted to scream, to invo
e with manufactured terror. *"You'll start a war with t
ile feelings, leaving Valentina to be brutally slapp
e cost Valent
to "comfort" her. That night, Valentina hung herself with the silver Castillo rosary I had gifted he
ark Don for a Vendetta. When his elite Enforcers ruled it a suicide, Chiara ha
ad struck the physical blow, but it was Chiara who had slithered into that apartment and psychologically butchered a grie
ide bled through the crack, sharp and venomous.
sneered. "First a commoner Queen, and now we are expected to host her
ice rang out, trembling but fiercely defiant. "You disr
the room, followed by th
po's wife like that?" Elmira's voice
r Capo's wife, murmured nervously, trying to de-
bsolute disdain. "She broke the hierarchy. Drag her out to the corridor. Let t
e doors swung o
ing her onto the freezing marble. Elmira and Isabella stepped out beh
wasn't here to dig h
my eyes locked on Elmira as the Enf
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