Chapter 354

• VALENTINA
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• I pressed my forehead to his, ignoring the way my own tears mixed with the grime on his face. “Don’t talk like that,” I whispered fiercely, my voice cracking despite the strength I tried to hold onto. “You’re going to make it. We all are. But yes, Gustavo. If the worst happens… I’ll tell them everything. The good and the bad. How their father was a king who built an empire on fear, but how he chose love when it mattered most. How he bled for us in these tunnels. How he held Luca when the world was falling apart. They’ll know the man I fell in love with—the one trying to break the cycle. Not just the monster the city feared.”