Chapter 37 Almost

• (Isabella POV)
• I found Leonardo in the wine cellar three nights later. He'd been avoiding me since I refused his escape offer. Not obviously, just strategically absent. Meetings that ran late. Business that required his attention. The careful distance of a man trying to protect himself from what he'd admitted.
• The cellar was his thinking space. Elena had mentioned it once. Where he went when decisions required silence and solitude.