Isabella

The crowd fell silent, and my heart started thumping loudly. But it was too late to stop now.

 "And over time, even when I was in Rome in exile, they tried to kill me. My cousin and Roman actively tried to end my life multiple times but failed. Until their son, RJ, actually fired a gun at me, killing my child in the process."

 I took a step down one of the stairs, then another, compelled to move closer. The crowd was so large now that I couldn't even quantify how much more they had multiplied.

 "They cannot be let to live, period, and not just for my sake,...