Chapter 494 After her failed attempt to run, Anna lost the last of her freedom. Vito brought her back to the White estate in Jaford, far from Snowville, far from anything familiar. Without her ID or passport, going home was impossible. Nina had convinced herself that Anna was really Alice,

Chapter 493 Vito sat beside my bed that first night after the surgery, his voice steady and gentle. “The anesthesia is wearing off. The pain is normal. Just rest , I’m not going anywhere.” He meant it as comfort. I received it as a countdown. Because the moment the idea

Chapter 492 Ever since I came back, I hadn’t been able to find my footing. Something had shifted inside me , a restlessness I couldn’t name and couldn’t shake. Vito noticed. He always noticed. He moved me to a safer location without explanation, just efficiency and care, the way he

Chapter 491 The blade caught the light like a cold warning, held steady in Silas’s grip. My heart slammed against my ribs, but I refused to let him see that. I turned my eyes toward the security camera mounted on the wall and made sure he followed my gaze. “Kill

Chapter 490 The moment Vito found out, something in him broke. I watched it happen. His face didn’t crumble the way most people’s do , it went very still instead, the way water goes still right before it freezes. He’d spent years trying to make sure I had a good

Chapter 489 I didn’t think about it. I just wrapped my arms around him. We stayed like that for a while , two people holding each other up in the cold, in the dark, for reasons that had nothing to do with romance and everything to do with survival. It

Chapter 488 Elena swept her gaze across the courtyard, searching every shadow, every gap between the hedges. There was no one there. Just snow, and silence, and the two small figures she held in her palm. Julian reached her a moment later, slightly out of breath. “Elena, what’s wrong?” She

Chapter 487 I watched Vito board the ship, but something about him seemed far away even as he stood right beside me. He’d kissed me, and I still didn’t fully understand what that meant , only that it made my pulse do something strange. At sixteen, he already carried the

Chapter 486 The music was still soft in the background when we finally stopped dancing, and I realized I hadn’t thought about the steps once in the last several minutes. I had just followed him, and it had felt easy, like breathing. The island nights were their own kind of

Chapter 485 Vito went still the moment my arms wrapped around him. I didn’t notice at first. To me, he was the same person he had always been , the one constant on this island, the only person who felt like home. I had been leaning on him since I