Epilogue.
The Day His World Shifted
The moment Ignazio’s phone rang, he knew.
Before he even answered, a gut-wrenching feeling seized his chest, an instinct so primal it overrode everything else. The boardroom around him blurred—the mahogany table, the men in crisp suits, the foreign investors who had flown in just for this meeting. The deal he had spent months preparing for, one that would add another mountain of wealth to his empire, suddenly meant nothing.
Johnson’s voice came through the speaker like a bullet to the heart.
“It’s Bella. She’s in labor. We’re on our way to the hospital.”
For a split second, the world stopped spinning.
And then—chaos.
Ignazio shoved back his chair so violently that it scraped against the marble floor. He yanked his suit jacket from the chair, alr
