Silvio POV

The conversation was intense, and I did my best to stop staring at her. Then I felt it.

The need to protect her. Nikolas's words rang through me. He said she was manipulated against me, and she tried to fight it.

I couldn’t forgive her, but I knew one thing: if she was assigned to kill me in the first place, and she didn’t carry out her purpose, maybe I had judged her too easily and thrown her out as just a symbol of mercy.

But I knew there was no day I didn’t think of her. For five years, I never forgot her, and it broke me...