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152: Dante, Who's This Woman?
Giulia opened her mouth to speak, but the words never came. Her lips parted, then pressed back together as if something invisible had sealed them shut.She hadn’t expected that kind of response from him. It was sharp and guarded, almost like he had been waiting to draw a line the moment she stepped close.Although Giulia hadn't expected Dante to be open towards her, she hadn't expected him to react this way so soon.For a brief second, she just stood there, staring at him, trying to reconcile the man in front of her with the one she used to know.The Dante she remembered would have softened. He would have read her silence and filled it with something gentler, but this one felt distant, like a stranger wearing a familiar face.“Are we quarreling?” she finally managed to say, her voice quieter than she intended. It betrayed her, carrying a tremor she couldn’t suppress.Dante exhaled, not impatiently, but not kindly either. “We’re not quarreling,” he said, his tone flat, almost indiffere
151: A New Date
Having spent almost half a year living in deliberate celibacy, Dante had finally decided to loosen the tight grip he had on himself. It hadn’t been easy getting to that point. The discipline had already become a part of him. But somewhere along the line, that discipline began to feel less like strength and more like isolation, so he had chosen to associate with the opposite gender again. Dante had made a decision. Not necessarily to fall in love but to at least allow himself to feel something again. He had decided to feel affection, companionship even if it was fleeting. He wasn't that naive to fall in love again.Three days ago, he met a woman on a dating site. It wasn’t something he would normally do, but curiosity got the better of him. Their conversation had been surprisingly smooth. No awkward pauses, no forced responses. Just easy. By the end of that first exchange, they had agreed to meet, and today was the day. Everything had been planned down to the smallest detail, from
150: Who's That?
“What are you doing here?”The question slipped off Giulia’s lips before she could restrain it.It came out sharper than she intended, edged with suspicion that had risen too quickly for her to soften.Standing a few feet away from her was one of the home staff.Gerald. He didn’t respond to Giulia's question.He just stood there, stiff and uneasy, as though the floor beneath him had suddenly turned fragile. His eyes flickered, not quite meeting hers, nor was he looking away. It was the kind of silence that said too much without saying anything at all.Giulia’s brows slowly furrowed.Her office was the only active one on the third floor. Everyone knew that. There was no reason for anyone to be up here unless they had business with her. And even then, they would have informed her first.So why was he coming from that direction?Giulia didn’t need a soothsayer to piece it together.A quiet chill crept up her spine.Aside from that, what was he even doing in the firm? He was part of the h
149: Back To Office
The moment Giulia saw the name flashing across her phone screen, a wave of disappointment washed over her so suddenly that it almost made her chest ache.She had thought it would be Dante returning her call, but instead, staring back at the screen was a name she had grown to resent.Matteo Romano.Her grip on the steering wheel tightened instantly, her fingers curling as irritation sparked through her veins. Of all people, it had to be him.A bitter scoff slipped from her lips.Even when Giulia had still been married to Dante, when there should be boundaries, he hadn’t let her be. Sometimes he would even call her at odd hours and send inappropriate messages.Giulia had blocked his number multiple times, but he would always find a way to contact her through a different number. At a point, Giulia got tired of blocking.So now that she was no longer tied to Dante, now that things had fallen apart, Giulia wasn't surprised that Matteo would grow even bolder.The phone continued to ring, th
148: I'll Set Him Up
After Giulia’s consultation with the doctor, something in her mind seemed to fracture beyond repair. It wasn’t just worry anymore; it was a slow, creeping unraveling she couldn’t fully grasp.She couldn't fathom why every new day adds problems to the already existing ones she's trying to solve. The worst of it was that those problems came from what she had thought would be a solution.She still couldn’t wrap her head around it.Did she just get pregnant?The doctor's word echoed in her thoughts again like a cruel joke. If not for the test result, there's no way she would have believed because she made sure to flush whatever the man had deposited in her, but right now it seemed the contraceptives had failed her.She's pregnant by a man she couldn’t even picture clearly. A man whose face refused to form in her memory no matter how hard she tried to force it.It was like chasing smoke; every attempt to recall him only made the emptiness more obvious.She lay on her bed longer than necess
147: I'm Sorry For Everything
After Lorenzo had told Dante what was being said about his name, he hadn’t taken it lightly.At first, he tried handling it the proper way. Quietly and professionally. He reached out to the media outlet that had published the story, expecting at least a response, even if it was a defensive one. But there was nothing.He had just checked his email, which he used to send the message, but they hadn't responded. It was almost one week now.There was no acknowledgment. No apology. Not even a token attempt to revise or pull down the article.It was as though his complaint had vanished into thin air.That silence irritated Dante more than the publication itself. It wasn’t just about the damage to his name; it was the audacity of it. The boldness of people who believed they could say anything, write anything, and walk away untouched.They didn't know who they were dealing with.Either way, Dante wasn’t going to let it slide.So today, he had decided to take a different approach.The kind that
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