Chapter 10 - THE NEW DAWNI walked over to the floor-to-ceiling window, scooping Elena up into my arms and resting her head gently against my shoulder. She smelled of baby powder, sunshine, and absolute innocence.
The past five years felt like a lifetime spent in another person's skin—a dark, suffocating dream from which I had finally awakened.
They said you could never truly escape a mafia bloodline. They said the ghosts of the past always came back to collect their due.
They were wrong.
Some ghosts don't come back to haunt you. They come back to burn the whole house down so you can finally build something real from the ashes.
"Look at that view, my love," I whispered, pointing a finger toward the snow-capped peaks of the Alps rising majestically in the distance, glowing golden in the morning light. "That's our horizon now. No shadows. No cages. Just the future."
Elena cooed softly, reaching out a tiny hand to touch the glass, as if she could feel the vast, open world waiting just beyond the pane.
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I smiled, turning away from the window, and stepped forward into our brand-new life.
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