Hearing Her Heart Drove Him Mad
I can hear the Heart-Voice of Elena Rossi, the scholarship student the Mafia Families sponsor.
Her tore up her own keynote draft and slipped the pieces into my desk, framing me. She sobbed,
“I know… I know you’ve always looked down on someone like me—someone who’s poor.”
Within seconds, everyone was condemning me.
Even Luca Valenti—my childhood friend, my betrothed, the future boss of the Valenti Family—grabbed my wrist and demanded,
“Apologize. Now.”
I shook my head through my tears.
“It wasn’t me.”
But over Elena’s dramatic crying, I heard her real thoughts:
God, this is perfect. Nothing like a childhood sweetheart betraying his little princess to make my plan work.
Then Luca snapped, his voice like a blade:
“It won’t kill you to apologize.”
I let out a cold, bitter little laugh.
If only he could hear her mind as I do…
And when the Family’s heirloom power—the shared mind-link—finally awakened in me, I didn’t hesitate.
I chose Luca Valenti.
Now, he can hear her too.