Chapter 118

• Aria’s POV
• I stood in the center of the grand hall, sunlight pouring through the tall stained-glass windows and casting a colorful glow across the marble floor. The house was finally ours again. It had taken years of pain, sacrifice, and determination to stand here again, and I didn’t intend to lose it ever again.
• I had begun the first step to restoring honor to the Bellandi name, the real Bellandis. Not the betrayers who dine with our enemies, not those that stood against the last Patriarch.