Chapter 175

Giovanni

She was slipping through my fingers.

The girl that I did everything to make what I needed to create in my favor.

Delilah.

The one I had raised in the shadows. The one I shaped with my own hands. The one who owed me everything. The one who I knew would have been long dead had it not been up to me. I would have killed her alongside her mother.

And now she was turning on me. Now she was turning to them. She was going to them.

I stood in the center of my study, the fire crackling low in the hearth behind me, casting long, jagged shadows against the walls. The whiskey in my glass remained untouched, my jaw clenched tightly as I replayed her words in my head.

“You’ve had enough years to use me… I finally chose who I’m going to be.” Howards played in my mind, and I pinched the bridge of my nose. She had gone soft. I saw it in her eyes. But now I was going to be sure that I taught her the lesson that she was never going to forget. On