I additionally forgive her as a result of I understand that she has suffered sufficient. She was trapped in a nightmare not of her personal making, pressured to make not possible selections so as to defend herself after she was cruelly robbed of the one household she had left.

I attain out to softly cup her face in my palms. “You did not deserve any of this. What occurred to your father, what Rafaele put you thru… None of it was your fault.”

Her eyes widen at my phrases, as if she will hardly consider them. “You… You forgive me?”

“After all,” I reply with out hesitation. ” I’d have completed the identical in your home.”

As we end tying Rafaele up, I understand we have been by way of a lot collectively – confronted our darkest fears and survived in opposition to all odds. And now, with the reality lastly revealed, we have now an opportunity to make issues proper.

“Romola,” I say, my voice stuffed with willpower. “This madness should finish. I’m going to provide you two selections.”

“Selections?” she murmurs.

“You will have a choice to make,” I say critically. “You may stroll away from me now, from this harmful world we’re residing in and by no means look again. Should you select that, I want you the utmost pleasure, however we are able to’t see one another. It might contain hazard you don’t need in your life. Or when you embrace the hazard, the challenges and this life, you’ll be able to assist me steal Rafaele’s diamond, and I will present you the true one which’s been hidden by my household for hundreds of years.”

“The…the true one?” her eyes widen.

I give her a small, mischievous grin. “You didn’t assume I’d maintain the Coronary heart of Italy within the fireside of my dwelling, did you? What did you assume that I’m as silly as Rafaele?”

Her face breaks into a smile wider than I’ve seen in days. “Let’s do it,” she whispers. “I’m in. Let’s steal Rafaele’s diamond and put your coronary heart collectively.”

“Good,” I whisper, now working sooner. I put a tape over Rafaele’s mouth to ensure he can’t scream for assist. By the point his males discover him, we’d be out of right here, secure.

I give her my hand and assist her off the ground, Rafaele nonetheless certain and useless to the world. What she doesn’t know is that by figuring out the reality eventually, by figuring out that she’s selecting to remain by my facet, my coronary heart’s already full.

Chapter 44

Romola

Fiero and I stand holding palms, Rafaele at our ft. I desperately need to kiss him, to achieve energy from his presence and from the information that we could be collectively as a result of he forgives me. However we’re nonetheless in enemy territory, and now’s not the time.

I look down on the monster’s face that’s been haunting me all these nights. Fiero introduced him to his knees. Nonetheless, I can’t forgive myself for betraying Fiero on such a deep degree.

There’s just one manner for me to forgive myself. Stand true by Fiero’s facet, the best way he stood by mine.

“Fiero,” I say, bending down and pulling off the gold chain from round Rafaele’s neck. “I do know the place Rafaele retains his diamond, and this chain,” I maintain up my hand, “holds the important thing that opens the glass case. There’s just one drawback.”

“Which is?”

“To get to the room with the case is not any simple job. Rafaele put me on the safety system in order that I may scan ourselves by way of the preliminary layer of safety, however there’s a lock with three million combos. The mixture modifications on daily basis.”

“I’ve bought this,” Fiero nods. He pulls out a walkie-talkie connected to the again of his denims.

“Rico,” he barks. “We’d like backup. Romola’s secure, however I’ve an opportunity to get Rafaele’s Coronary heart.”

I hear Rico gasp.

“Get the hackers into their safety system.” Fiero turns to me. “The place’s the code field?”

“It’s on the finish of an extended hallway stuffed with art work, simply after a watch and fingerprint scanner,” I inform him.

“You heard what she mentioned,” Fiero says. “There’s a posh safety lock. Hack into it and disengage it. We have to get by way of.”

“Sure, boss. There are males crawling everywhere. How will you get there?”

Fiero seems to be at Rafaele on the ground. “Their boss is …busy, we are able to say. They’re weak with out instructions. Assault and draw them out onto the grounds.”

“Copy that.”

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