Chapter 9 - Alessandro Offered to Walk Away From the Moretti Empire if It Meant Emma and I Could Live Without Fear, and I Finally Understood Why He Had Started Caring About UsThe arrests changed everything.
Businesses were frozen.
Accounts seized.
Properties investigated.
The Moretti name was everywhere.
Alessandro could have fought.
Instead, he cooperated.
“I'll testify.”
I stared.
“You're giving up everything.”
“Not everything.”
“What do you mean?”
He looked at Emma.
“Her.”
Then me.
“You.”
I shook my head.
“You barely know us.”
“I know enough.”
“What?”
He smiled.
“Your daughter ran through a storm to return ten thousand dollars.”
He paused.
“And you rejected it when you needed it.”
“You remember.”
“I remember everything.”
That night, he told me something.
He had begun visiting Rosa's Diner before that night.
He had seen me there.
He noticed Emma.
He noticed my mother.
He noticed how hard I worked.
I asked:
“Why never speak to me?”
“Because you had a life.”
“And now?”
“Now someone is trying to destroy it.”
I looked at him.
“That's not a reason to stay.”
“No.”
“What is?”
He stepped closer.
“You.”
My heart beat faster.
For the first time, I understood.
Alessandro hadn't simply become interested in a witness.
He had fallen in love with the woman who never asked him for anything.
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He loved the child who returned his money.
And he wanted to build something better.
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