Teresa's POV The city hummed around them, a distant murmur of life, cars passing, voices echoing in alleyways, the faint scent of roasted meat wafting from a street vendor nearby. But for Teresa and Stefano, the world had stilled.Teresa didn’t move. She didn’t breathe. She only stared.Five years.It had been five years since she last saw him, since he stood in front of her, promising to come back after kissing her. A promise that had shattered like glass, leaving nothing but sharp edges in her chest.And now, here he was.But he was not the Stefano she remembered.His once imposing figure was reduced to skin and bones, his cheekbones sharper than before, his eyes hollow, filled with exhaustion. His clothes were tattered, worn, barely fitting him, hanging loose off his frame like they belonged to someone else. The man who once commanded fear, who once ruled over entire territories, looked nothing more than a ghost of himself.Something inside her twisted painfully.Guilt? No.She sh
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