My mom opened the drapes, and the solar spilled into the room. She turned to me, and my eyes misted with tears. Dashing to my facet, she sat on the mattress and felt my face as if to test for a temperature.

“Are you okay?”

“No.”

Unhappiness crammed her eyes. “How can I assist?”

I gawked. “Are you kidding me?”

She glanced round, then turned her gaze again to me. “I do know this isn’t ultimate, however it’s important to keep put for now.”

“Mother. What occurred to you?”

Her eyes widened. “What do you imply?”

“Was it the years in jail that wilted your braveness?”

She gasped and dropped her eyes. “I’ve seen and achieved lots of issues, Penelope. I’m attempting to maintain you secure.”

“From my grandfather?”

“Sure.”

My chest tightened. “In order that’s it, then. He’s the monster I ought to’ve been afraid of all these years.” I exhaled a deep breath. “I knew this, however I had doubts. However now…” I shook my head. “I wished to consider he wasn’t as merciless as he’d offered himself to be. Even after what he’d allowed, I hoped he’d modified or might discover it in his coronary heart to apologize, however no. He’s the satan.”

Tears ran down my mom’s face, and she or he nodded. “I’m afraid so.”

“So what now? What’s the purpose of maintaining me right here?”

She swiped away the tears rapidly. “You’re his leverage.”

“For what?”

“He doesn’t know if Dominic is alive. If he’s, Riccardo thinks maintaining you’ll maintain Dominic from attempting to kill him.”

“Dominic left me, keep in mind?”

She nodded. “Sure, I do. However I additionally know he loves you.”

“How are you aware that?”

“Your father and I went after him with a vengeance. We tried to kill him, and he spared us—not as a result of he has a forgiving coronary heart both.”

Tears ran down my face, and I turned my eyes away from her.

“A person of his caliber would by no means let his enemy stroll away alive. We had been good as ghosts in case you hadn’t entered the warehouse if you did. It’s clear his love for you trumps any cheap choice an individual might make. Nonetheless, I feel your grandfather’s fallacious.”

My eyes widened, and I turned again to take a look at her. “What do you imply?”

“I feel maintaining you right here will gasoline Dominic into pursuing you, and in doing so, your grandfather has no probability.”

I nodded and dropped my head as cries broke by way of my lips. “What if… What if he’s not alive?”

“I consider he’s.”

Newfound hope crept its manner into my coronary heart.

“How?”

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