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Stefan strolled through the garden of his house, heading towards the pool.He regretted asking that red-haired man to take care of Katia and Joanne in case something happened to him.Leaving them in Lourmarin with that man didn't sit well with him, but he had to sort out several things with the patriarch of his family, which was not an easy task. His grandfather was even more stubborn than him in every way.Flashback:"I need to ask you for a favor.""Excuse me?" He raised an eyebrow."I want you to promise me something, in case something...""And why would I do that?""Because you will look after Katia and my daughter," Stefan paused briefly. "I want you to take care of them in case anything happens to me. I know you'll do it right," Stefan asked, staring into his eyes."Why are you asking me this? Wouldn't it be easier to set her free and let her be happy with someone who loves her?""I don't think it's a good idea... Katia doesn't know many things about me, and I have many secrets
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Without further ado, he got into the car and Fred closed the door. He then circled around the car, got into the driver's seat, and, after starting without any issues, left the property, leaving the men with a bit more relief."Today he woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Mark thought as he watched his boss depart.The middle-aged man turned around, arms raised like claws, and exclaimed:"Come on, move! There's a lot to hide so they don't see!"The men, following Mark's orders, began doing what Stefan had instructed. Everyone was aware of the danger that Katia and her daughter could be in, and they had to pay attention to every detail.Deep inside, Mark wished that the young woman would be the one to stay with Stefan, but he also knew that he wouldn't make it easy. The world they were involved in would never be easy.He sighed heavily when he remembered how difficult it had been for him to be with the woman he had been married to for twenty-six years. He was just a pawn, and it had
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At the door, Jennel and Norbert were waiting for them with smiles. On their legs and sitting on their hind legs were Panda and Booby.Upon seeing the car stop in front of them, these two dogs began wagging their tails.Katia got out of the car and knelt down to pet and hug her pets. She had missed them, just like she had missed Jennel and Norbert. The woman, thrilled with this reunion, hugged the young woman and then went to see the little one who was in Stefan's arms.Katia took this opportunity to greet Norbert with a hug. Then, the man approached his wife while the brunette scratched the pets' bellies."Darling, look. What a beauty!" Jennel exclaimed with the baby in her arms. "She looks so much like her parents. How old is she, ma'am?""She turns two months on July eighteenth," Katia replied, touching Panda and Booby's bellies."She's grown so much," Jennel commented with a special sparkle in her eyes."You're right, Jen. She's a beautiful baby, but she looks a lot like Katia," No
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That evening, at Stefan's request, Jennel prepared a sumptuous dinner in which he asked her to move to his room so that when they brought the furniture for their daughter's room, she would be closer to Joanne.Katia accepted without thinking about what it would entail for both of them."Have you thought about what I proposed when we were about to leave for Lourmarin?" Stefan asked, making her look at him in surprise."Stefan... I think you're right that we should at least try it for Joanne, but... I don't know if it would work.""We won't know if we don't try. I'm willing to try, but one alone can't achieve something if the other doesn't want it.""Let me think about it a little more," she asked, looking away."Alright," he agreed with a smile.That morning, a couple of days after Katia's arrival, Gretchen was fuming when she found out that Stefan had a child with the woman she despised.Like a madwoman, overly jealous, she began to take anything she found in her room and threw it to
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Around eight in the evening, Stefan returned home. He was tired from the long day, but he couldn't ignore the fact that all his men seemed agitated, and Mark was waiting at the mansion's entrance.Getting out of the car, Stefan buttoned up his suit jacket and arched an eyebrow as he noticed Mark's expression. Something inside him told him that something was wrong.He furrowed his brow before entering the house. The sound of his daughter crying caught his attention. It was the first time he had heard her cry since his arrival, excluding the early mornings when she woke up. The cries seemed to be coming from the living room.Joanne was trying to soothe Joanne, while Norbert had the phone to one ear and a finger in the other, listening intently to the person on the line."What's going on? Why is Joanne crying?" Stefan asked as he approached them."Oh, sir..." Jennel began. Stefan took his daughter and tried to comfort her. "Katia... I mean, Mrs. Katia hasn't returned.""What do you mean
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They arrived at an impressive hotel in the city center half an hour later. Katia gazed at the building with some amazement and then looked at the man accompanying her.He simply smiled, got out of the car, circled around to her side, and offered a hand to help her out. They entered the hotel and were then guided to a room with golden doors.It was the first time she had seen a hotel with doors like that. She opened her eyes wide when, turning her head, she saw the enormous room and at the far end, a banner that read "Association for Childhood Cardiopulmonary Cancer Research - Adriel Samuels."Katia stood at the entrance, unable to look away from the banner. She placed both hands over her mouth, holding back tears. Stefan took one of her hands and affectionately kissed it.She looked at him, not understanding. Then, he said, his free hand on her waist:"I know how much you loved your son, and I believe that the rare disease he had should be studied so that other children can be cured,
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"What are you doing with a torture chamber in your house, Stefan?" she asked with wide eyes, looking at him with fear. "Did you intend to use it on me?" He looked at her, unsure of how to respond. "People who have a torture chamber are bad people... mobsters... extortionists... criminals! People who hurt others just to instill fear in innocent individuals who have no fault in their being wretched criminals! People like that belong in jail! They're nothing but disgusting criminals! And not only that! They're terrible, horrible people!" She hugged herself and looked away, but then glanced back at him after a few minutes of silence. "Are you like them?"Stefan gazed at her impassively. He didn't know whether he should tell her the truth or lie. This was something he had to discuss when she didn't look at him with that much fear in her eyes.At that moment, alerted by Katia's screams, Jennel and Norbert arrived in that part of the house. The woman, upon seeing the open torture chamber, co
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Around seven-thirty in the evening, Stefan stared out of his office window with his hands behind his back. He had a hardened look on his face, thinking about Katia's nightly cries.Not being able to go in to hold and comfort her when he heard her crying frustrated him. He was upset with himself for not being able to do anything. Every time he knocked on her door to inform her about meals, she would scream at him and tell him to leave.From what Jennel had told him, she didn't want to see him, but she didn't want to see anyone else either.He closed his eyes with anger and sat in his black office chair. That look of sadness he saw every night in Katia broke his heart. He picked up a small remote and turned on the stereo system.As the saying goes, music soothes the savage beast, and he hoped it would have the same effect on him. He started listening to Bruno Mars & B.O.B. singing "Nothing on You." He was so engrossed in the lyrics that he didn't notice when someone knocked on the door
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"Madeleine, welcome to our family," she said to her son's wife and then walked away to sit next to her wife.Katia swallowed hard, butterflies in her stomach were fluttering with force.Stefan and Richard Jr. had positioned themselves on either side, forming an intimate circle with them just before the ceremony began."Katia, tell him before the ceremony starts," Madeleine urged her friend, whispering in her ear.There was anticipation, but also uncertainty pulsing in her words.Katia nodded, gripping Madeleine's arm in silent support. The Judge, an elderly man with a warm smile, was adjusting his papers at the front, getting ready to commence the ceremony.It was the right moment to share the news."What to say?" Stefan asked in a whisper, looking at Katia.Katia swallowed hard again before letting the words out."I'm pregnant, Stefan... and it's twins," she told him in a hushed voice, her eyes meeting Stefan's, filled with excitement and expectation.Stefan was left speechless, for
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Hilbert helped his friend by taking his arm to help him stand, and then everyone congratulated the couple.At that moment, Madeleine and Katia decided to get married on the same day and... in Lourmarin.For each of them, that place held a different meaning, but they both agreed it was a beautiful location for a double wedding.Joanne and Stefanie Elein were overjoyed. Their parents were getting married, and they would become one united family. Richard, the father, looked at his eldest son and his youngest daughter, and seeing them happy, he was happy too.For some reason, he looked at the lawyer and smiled half-heartedly."I should start having more conversations with that man, as he's the one my daughter Elyse has chosen," he thought. He looked around the room, and taking advantage of his wife's proximity to their children, he approached Hilbert and said,"I think I'll need a lawyer to help me with my will. Can I count on you?""Of course, sir," Hilbert replied, somewhat surprised, a
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A group of men gathered behind the young brunette, but the leader of the group took Katia as a hostage, pointing a gun at her. Müller, despite having something against Stefan, had nothing against the woman who looked at him with fear, feeling the gun against her temple. Katia began to silently cry, looking at the inspector for help.The police were in a dilemma. They couldn't shoot without harming Katia. Both the gang and the law enforcement group had their weapons aimed at each other, with the young brunette caught in the middle."Stefan... help me..." Katia silently wished, her eyes closed as tears streamed down her cheeks.She was so focused on seeking help from the man she loved that she didn't realize someone was speaking behind her. Suddenly, she felt the man shifting, and as she turned around, she was surprised and relieved to see Mark.The man nodded for her to run towards the group of men behind those traffickers. The other Richter family's hitmen surrounded Katia to "hide"
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Once they had landed at Munich Franz Josef Strauss Airport, Stefan's chauffeur Frederick picked them up to drive them to the brown man's house, but Katia refused.She wanted to go straight to the hospital to see Stefan.After arriving at the private hospital, they went to the room where Stefan was resting. When they opened the door they found Federica sitting next to him and Jürgen, who was leaning against the wall. The dark-haired man looked at him in surprise, as he didn't know how the woman had found out. Katia walked over to the bed and stood next to her ex-husband. She caressed his face, holding back her tears, and kissed him.Federica approached her husband and smiled at him after hugging him. Hilbert began to ask what had really happened and Jürgen told him. Katia listened to them sitting on the edge of the bed.Suddenly the door opened, ushering in the police, but the one who caught everyone's attention was a tall, slender man, although at first glance it could be seen that
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The sound of the cell phone she had in her left hand since she sat down to eat made her snap out of her world, fixed on a single point.She didn't have the number saved, but upon seeing the number it began with, she knew it wasn't from there."Hello?" Katia answered and took a sip of champagne."Katia, it 's Federica. Happy New Year," she heard on the other end of the line, but it was clear that Federica was sad about something."Happy New Year to you too, Federica. Is... your brother around?""Katia... I don't know how to tell you this, but...""Federica... don't scare me. What's going on?" This made everyone look at her. "What's happening?""Do you remember that my brother and Jürgen were trying to stop the mafia war?""Of course, I remember. That's why he went back to Germany. Has something happened to him?" she asked with fear. Madeleine approached her sister-in-law and put her hands on her arms. "Please, Federica. Tell me what's going on.""My brother was shot in the chest. He's
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She had finished showering and the only thing around her body was a towel that reached a few inches below her butt. Took off the towel that surrounded her hair and dried it with that cloth while she looked at herself in the mirror.She stood still as she thought of Stefan. Since he had left she had been using the masturbator she had before she met him, and while she was showering, she had been touching herself thinking about him.Katia needed him to touch her the way he only knew how to touch her and feel his kisses around her body, her neck and kiss her lips.She shook her head not to think about him and not to tempt desire again.She took off her towel and then put on a black strapless set and a colutte also in black and combed her hair a little to get rid of the knots that had come out after wetting her hair.Then she came out of the bathroom and stared at the dress on the bed."Why did you have to choose pink, knowing that I don't like that color?," she said with her hands on her
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That night, after putting her daughters to bed, Katia returned to the living room and poured herself a glass of red wine. Ever since she had broken up with Stefan, she did this every night when she felt down.She left the bottle on the coffee table in front of the couch.Katia took the glass of wine and took a small sip while she thought about what Zelig or Stefan had told her. Although to her, he would always be Stefan, as that's the name she had known him by.Did either of them really have the blame?She, barefoot with the glass in her hand, walked across the floor to the entrance and approached a small bookshelf in that area. She sat on the floor, leaving the glass by her side, and opened the door of the piece of furniture, starting to search inside.After a few minutes, she pulled out a frame. She sat on the floor, staring at the photo, and took a sip of wine."You have no idea how much I wish I could talk to you, Oscar... Why did you have to die?" Katia thought, without moving fr
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Federica and Katia went up to the top floor where the cafeteria was located. They sat at a table near the large window, and the brunette waitress brought two soft drinks, one for each of them.Unable to help it, Katia felt uncomfortable, but she didn't want to tell the woman sitting across from her. The babbling of the triplets caught her attention.They were three beautiful children, just like their parents, and they were utterly adorable with their chubby cheeks. Judging by their age, the babies couldn't be more than a year and a half old.Not knowing what to say, Katia took a sip of her drink and sighed."My brother told me that Joanne looks a lot like you," Federica commented, making her companion look at her. "Listen, Katia. It's true that my brother is... a mafioso," she said in a hushed voice so no one could hear. "But there's something I'm sure of: he loves you and misses both of you. Over these five years, he's delayed his visit to the Seattle Delegation because of your rejec
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Suddenly he saw his daughter suddenly stand up and run into the President's office. Zelig jumped in surprise and crouched down to keep up with his daughter.He noticed that Katia had not moved from where Joanne separated from her and that she was not looking at him."I promise to come another day," Joanne said to her father."I'd love to," he said with a smile. "Now go on. Your mother is waiting for you.""Daddy, why didn't you say hello to mommy?," she asked innocently.Zelig noticed Katia watching them and saw her snort."Mommy is mad at me for something I did a long time ago, but as long as I get to see you again, I'll be happy. Do you know why?" The girl shook her head. "Because you look so much like your mother.""Grandma says Stefanie Elein looks more like Mommy..." she pouted tenderly."I don't think so. You... you have the same look as your mother and her same smile," she stroked his cheek, smiling. "Go on, go. Your mother will be more upset with me as long as you're still her
