All Chapters of BLOOD AND VOWS: THE MAFIA WRONG BRIDE : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

CHAPTER 82THE HOUSE I COULDN’T RETURN TO CHIARAA few days passed after the call. Nothing happened and I should have felt better and safe about it, instead, every hour that passed without something going wrong made me feel worse. I never told Lucien about the call and she hadn’t called again. Lucien hadn’t said anything since I went to meet him about it.Nobody acted differently, or looked at me differently or even asked me questions. Not like I want anything to happen, it’s just that somehow that silence felt impossible. I honestly kept expecting something to happen. A question, look, someone calling me by the wrong name. A servant slipping and saying something they shouldn’t know. But the estate remained exactly the same. Lucien remained exactly the same. That was the problem. He still acknowledged me when we crossed paths. He still asked whether I had eaten. During training, he corrected my footing once and acted as though nothing in the world had changed. But he still wasn’t sl

CHAPTER 84WHAT PEOPLE SHOW YOULUCIEN“Come darling, let’s go. We have some catching up to do.” Valentina’s stepmother said. I watched Claudia lead her out of the room. Valentina smiled as she followed her. Too quickly, too easily. Like she had no option. If I hadn’t been paying attention, I probably wouldn’t have noticed anything strange about it. But I had been watching her since breakfast. Actually, before breakfast, for days.At first, I thought I was imagining it. People changed. Situations changed. Silence changed people too. But something about her had been wrong for a while now and the more I ignored it, the more obvious it became. She thought I didn’t notice. That part almost annoyed me. She ate less, thought more, looked distracted during training, listened before answering. She kept doing something strange. She watched me. Not openly and not enough to draw attention to herself, but enough. Like she expected something from me. Like she was waiting for a reaction. Then whe

CHAPTER 86THE ROOM THAT DIDN’T FITCHIARAI didn’t mean to fall asleep. At first, I only planned to sit for a little while. The room felt quieter than the rest of the house. Familiar in a way that didn’t ask anything from me. I picked one of the books from the shelf and sat by the window like I used to. I told myself I would read for ten minutes. Just enough to settle my thoughts before going back downstairs and pretending again. But my body felt heavier than I expected. Too many nights thinking and too many days waiting. Too many possibilities sitting in my head all at once. At some point, the words stopped making sense and everything disappeared.I didn’t know how long I slept. All I knew was that when I opened my eyes, somebody was standing in front of me. My body reacted before my mind did. I sat upright immediately. Lucien looked down at me, his face expressionless, just staring at me like I’m some kind of difficult puzzle he was trying to piece together. My heart skipped a mi

CHAPTER 88THINGS THAT DIDN’T MATCHLUCIENI didn’t expect to find her asleep. When I opened the door, she was lying on the bed, sleeping. For a second, I didn’t move. People usually changed when they returned home. They feel relaxed, become louder, more careless. And she… She looked more tired. Her eyes opened suddenly and she sat upright immediately. Too alert for somebody waking up in a safe place.She looked around once before realising where she was and looked at me. “Sorry.”I looked at her. “For what?” Her eyes moved away immediately. No answer.Apologies usually came from one of two places. Guilt or habit. Most people apologised after conflict, after mistakes, after consequences. She apologised like breathing. Quietly and automatically, before I had even decided whether there was anything to apologise for.My eyes moved to the book resting against her. “You fell asleep.” She nodded once. Then silence settled between us. I looked around the room before returning my attention to

CHAPTER 90THINGS THAT DON’T ADD UPLUCIEN“I’ll see you later.” It was the last thing I said to her before entering my office. I needed to think. A lot of things aren’t making sense right now. How can someone, who was said to be a vain person, suddenly have a different personality all of a sudden. It didn’t make any sense at all. A knock came in. I was too tired and lost in thought to respond but the door opened anyway. And seeing as it was opened without my permission, I knew who it had to be. “You know, you need to wait for a response from me before you open the door. What if I blow your brains out without knowing it was you?”“Don’t kid yourself. You know the only person who would come into your space without a response from you is me.” He responded lightly, a smile forming on his lips. I smiled at that reasoning. Then suddenly the atmosphere thickened. “Did Vincenzo tell you anything?” Marco asked, the playful tone from earlier gone, replaced with the voice of a hard man. My mo