e, her breath shallow, her mind trying to process all that had happened. The guards waited

e and glamour of the gala downstairs. It was quiet, dimly lit and pr

t of double doors st

e Luca wa

ocket while the other rested lightly against the glass. From this heigh

s closing after them with a soft click. The sound

, neither of

f, steadying her breathing. She refused

nally, her voice quiet but controlled. "Yo

ys." Lorenzo repli

into the room, her eyes scanning it instinctively. It was a very large space with minimal furniture. It had ju

our point," she cont

he didn

u," he said calml

e eyes locked onto hers a

nto my world,

er chin slightly. The weight of that

ple regret" he said quie

low, deliberate steps, each of them closi

said as he stopped too

pounding, but her exp

and suffocating silence st

exhaling slowly. "You didn't bri

orenzo

t you want."

very single one of i

?" Her ches

years ago.

he had buried and the tr

toward the side table as if she needed

concerned, there's not

enzo's voice cut throu

froze her in place as she

not l

verything behind. And now you expect me

es

on snappe

quiet breath, his

nued. "A new identity. A

pen by accident." His

d you?" he

enough answer but it only made things wor

e question caugh

rows pulled to

, Isabella didn't understand, then the real

," she said, her

he replied. "Or someone." Lore

words slipped out befo

aze locked onto hers and there was

ly. Isabella's heart skipped,

nversation," she said

ng around her arm, pulling her back. Not

." Her pul

m done..."

Isabella."

na, not the identity she had built. But her

d into the pres

ked," she sa

in the air raw

Lorenzo

king slightly now despite her effort to stay composed. "I ran be

osened slightly. But his eye

" he

ve the faintest idea who it was at

to me?" The question hit

rust." the words lingered between th

e." Lorenzon said calmly a

e?" Isabella

silence, everything shifted. But Isabella wasn't finished, her ch

you don't know,"

enzo's attention s

it was already too late. Lorenzo stepped closer, h

you see?

because that was the real question,

bella shook he

are lie to m

t..." s

d her name again in

hed. Then came a sharp, urgent knock on the door. Lorenz

," he sa

e from the other si

stepped back

me

of his men stepped inside,

Lorenzo

then he said the words that

Isabella's heart dro

, very slowly as his

he snapped nar

, her secret was no longer safe and everything s