The silence was the loudest thing in the house. When Adrian finally unlocked the door twenty days later, his face was a mask of cold fury and exhaustion
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Chapter 3 - THE SAFE HARBORI wasn't in another state. I was in the one place he never checked: the basement of his own rival’s estate. Marco Rossi had been waiting for the day Adrian’s empire cracked.
"You’re playing a dangerous game, Elena," Marco said, pouring me a glass of juice. "You’re pregnant with a Vale. He’ll stop at nothing to get you back."
"Let him try," I replied, my hand resting on my stomach. "I’m not a trophy to be retrieved. I’m the one who holds the keys to his downfall."
