Luciana's POV
The air between us grew thick and heavy, each second stretching into a suffocating eternity. We stood frozen, our gazes locked in a silent standoff.
“So since the Don you sent to get rid of me failed,” I said, a weary chuckle escaping my lips. “Now you’ve come to finish the job yourself?”
His brows furrowed in a practiced mask of confusion. “The one I sent?”
I knew better. He was a master manipulator, a heartless demon who had lied to me before. He was trying to downplay it, to make me doubt what I knew was true.
“Are you trying to pretend you don’t know?” I returned, my voice a low growl.
“Is that why you conspired with them to get rid of me?” he countered. The question hit me like a physical blow. My lips parted slightly, and a bitter smile pulled at the corners of m
