Chapter 70

ISABELLA

"You're a monster!", I say, a mixture of hatred and sadness drenching my words.

Lorenzo remains unfazed, his mask of indifference insurmountable.

"You should have thought of that before you tried to run away for a second time, Isabella.", The dark room becomes witness to a silent battle, where resistance mixes with pain and the unconfessed desire that still persists between us. In the darkness, where the only witness is the silence of the night, my fate continues to be woven into Lorenzo's cruel hands.

I remain in the room, enveloped by the tense aura that Lorenzo has brought with him. The silence in the room is broken only by my own rapid breathing, an echo of the conflicting feelings that haunt me. Irritation and desire collide inside me as Lorenzo, the mobster I love to hate, begins to tease me.

"You don't have to pretend, Isabella. I know how you want me.", he says with a mischievous smile, staring at me with intense eyes.

I feel a fl