The morning after Luca showed her the truth about her father's death, Aria woke to a silence that felt heavier than any scream. She lay in bed staring at the ceiling, her body still and her mind anything but. The world as she knew it had shifted in a single night, the villain she'd hated for years was innocent, and the uncle who'd sworn to protect her had orchestrated her father's death.
But that was only the beginning.
Luca had left her alone deliberately that morning, giving her the space she needed. Yet the envelope on his desk still called to her, not for what she had already read, but for what she hadn't. There had been more in those files, more than betrayal and bloodshed. She remembered glimpsing a photograph she didn't recognize and a document with her mother's name on it.
And now, she needed to know everything.
