Chapter 79

• Her expression slackened as color drained from her face, leaving her looking ghostly pale and utterly despondent. The rigid lines of her body betrayed her vulnerable state, while her glassy eyes filled with unfallen tears. "Sandro—"
• "You will spend every single waking moment trapped within the dark confines of the asylum I meticulously select for you," he interrupted, his voice a low, menacing snarl. "And while you endure that torment, she will live the life I had always intended for her from the very beginning. She will bear my children and become a part of my family."
• Leaning in even closer, he could feel the tremors in her breath as he whispered his final promise. "When your sanity begins to unravel, when the walls close in like a suffocating cage and every last vestige of your mental stability is stripped away, you will come to understand the true depth of my vengeance. You will experience the very despair she felt, every agonizing second of it."