Chapter 148 An Unknown Number

• Vittoria settled on his lap, curling into his soaked chest as if she had finally found shelter in the only safe place she had left in the world.
• A broken sob slipped out, and she clung to him with the desperate strength of someone who had just stumbled back from the edge of the abyss.
• Vincenzo pulled her close, resting his chin on the top of her head and allowing himself, for one fleeting moment, to feel the weight of relief flooding his chest.