Chapter 352

• VALENTINA
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• The words hung in the air like smoke after an explosion, choking everything else. What child is he talking about? And why the hell didn’t you tell me? Gustavo’s voice cracked on the last word, raw and broken in a way I had rarely heard from the man who once ruled this city with iron and silence. His hand was still pressed to my belly, feeling the steady kicks of our baby, but his eyes—those dark, stormy eyes that had once terrified me and now held my entire world—were filled with a storm of pain, confusion, and desperate love.