Semua Bab The Vengeful Mafia Kings’ Property: Bab 21 - Bab 30

Rafael’s POVSleep and I were never close companions from the beginning. At best, we were reluctant acquaintances crossing paths only when exhaustion forced me into submission. But good sleep? Five uninterrupted hours of peace? That only happened when Adriana was beside me years ago. That realization sent a fresh wave of fury coursing through my veins. My jaw tightened fists clenching around the sheets that had barely been touched all night. She had wormed her way into every crevice of my life and embedded herself so deeply that I couldn’t think of a single goddamn happy moment without her bright, soulful smile forcing its way into my mind. Every memory! Every step! She was always there. It was suffocating. I threw the covers off and got out of bed my muscles taut with restlessness. Staying in this room and in this bed with nothing but my thoughts gnawing at me like vultures feasting on a carcass and it was was fucking unbearable. I needed to move and do something before I lost my

Rafael’s POVI hadn’t felt this level of unease in years. Maybe ever. I was used to control and to power and making the world bend to my will. But as I stood outside Isabella’s hospital room waiting for the doctor to explain what the fuck was wrong, I felt something I didn’t recognize. It felt like Impatience and frustration at the same time. A slow and creeping kind of fear that clawed at my chest like a beast ready to rip me open from the inside out. Adriana’s words still rang in my ears haunting me with their sharpness. "If my daughter dies because of you, I will never forgive you. I will become a nightmare you never saw coming."She had been in complete hysteria, screaming at me with a kind of rage only a mother could summon in the face of her child’s suffering. I had glared at her l furious that she was blaming me, and furious that she thought I wouldn’t do everything in my power to protect Isabella. But she wouldn’t stop. She kept yelling her voice cracking and her body trem

Adriana’s POVThe hours passed like a slow And torturous drip of water with the silence of the room pressing in on me until it felt like I was suffocating. After Rafael left, the room was locked tight and the oppressivv stillness settled over me like a second skin. There were no windows and no way to tell if it was day or night just the sterile scent of the clinic and the weight of the decision I had just made crashing over me again and again. I paced the floor until my legs threatened to give out. I sat in the corner, pulled my knees to my chest and stared at nothing but all I could see was Isabella’s small body on that screen. I replayed Rafael’s cold and unforgiving eyes, the way he uttered those words like he hadn’t just stolen my soul with them. But more than anything, it was the helplessness that consumed me. I had signed myself away and shackled to the devil himseld for the faint promise that my daughter might live. The silence in the room felt like punishment. Each tick of

Adriana’s POVI don’t know how long I stayed curled up next to Isabella before the sterile scent of the room became unbearable mixing with the sharp sting of disinfectants and my own growing dread. Her hand was still so small in mine, her heartbeat steady but weak beneath the weight of the monitors. Why isn’t she have to be awake already? I needed answers. I needed to know how she truly was. And I needed to face Rafael to her most of the answers. The man has already collected my life and I’m just realizing I didn’t fucking read the contract. Anything and I mean anything could be there. Reluctantly, I peeled myself away from her while tucking the blanket tighter around her fragile form. I pressed a kiss to her forehead, whispering a silent promise against her clammy skin. I really cannot watch her like this even though the machines are beeping. When I stepped out of the room the hallway outside was empty save for two guards stationed near the end. I didn’t know whether they were the

Rafael’s POVI leaned back in the leather chair behind my desk, staring through the floor-to-ceiling windows of my study. The morning light poured in, slashing long shadows across the marble floor, but it did nothing to thaw the ice running through my veins. The documents scattered before me were a blur. My mind wasn’t on business. No, it was on Adriana.Ever since she barged back into my life again I couldn’t shake her. The way her eyes burned when she signed herself to me last night and the storm she tried to bury beneath layers of defiance. But I saw through it. I saw the cracks. Someone had broken her and this time, it wasn’t me. It was Marco.I exhaled slowly while lifting two fingers to signal to Anna who stood quietly by the door. The only woman I’ve tolerated in this mansion besides Nathan. Usually, she fills the silence with harmless chatter but today? Today, she stayed quiet and stiff for reasons I don’t bother asking. Finally some peace and wuiet. “Tell her I expect her fo