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Chapter 460. The Plain Truth
Dr. Gail's office looked the same as it always did, soft lighting, a couch that had never once felt as comfortable as it looked, a small clock on the side table that Harry had spent more sessions than he liked to admit watching out of the corner of his eye instead of actually engaging with whatever question had been asked of him.This time he didn't look at the clock at all."I want to talk about my mother," he said, before Dr. Gail had even finished settling into her chair.She looked up, something careful and attentive crossing her face, the particular stillness of someone who had been waiting a long time for a door to finally open. "Okay. What about her?"Harry sat with the question longer than usual, turning it over, feeling the old, familiar urge rise up to deflect, to circle the subject the way he always had in every previous session that had gotten anywhere close to this particular room in his memory.He let the urge pass, this time, instead of following it."I think I've spent
Chapter 459: The Old Playbook
Three weeks. Harry had counted them, though he'd never admit to anyone exactly how carefully he'd been counting, each day another small exercise in restraint that felt, some mornings, like holding his breath underwater and waiting for permission to surface. He'd given Melissa the space she asked for. Hadn't pushed, hadn't checked in more than the occasional light text about Anna's school schedule or a question about dinner plans, small necessary logistics that didn't ask anything real of either of them. He'd told himself this was progress. That waiting, actually waiting, without engineering some clever way around it, was itself a kind of growth. By the start of the fourth week, the waiting had started to feel less like growth and more like something gnawing quietly at the edges of him, a itch he couldn't quite reach. He found himself, one evening, standing in the garage looking at an old car he hadn't touched in months, and the idea arrived fully formed before he'd even decided to
Chapter 458: The Last Time
Ricardo's face went hard the moment Harry finished explaining what Margot had learned about Monalisa's plan, something old and violent surfacing behind his eyes that Harry hadn't seen since the earliest days of this entire mess."We end her," Ricardo said, his voice flat and certain in a way that left no room for negotiation. "Now. Before she gets anywhere close to making good on any of it. I don't care what it costs or who I have to send to do it."Harry felt the old, familiar shape of Ricardo's ruthlessness reassert itself, the practiced brutality that had defined the man for most of this story finally cracking through the softer version that had emerged over the past week with Lily."That's not going to work," Harry said carefully."Excuse me?""If you move against her now, publicly, violently, it draws exactly the kind of attention you're trying to avoid. It confirms to every family watching that you're rattled enough to respond with force instead of control. And if anything about
Chapter 457: Monalisa's Real Plan
Monalisa sat alone in a rented apartment across town, watching the same piece of news play out through a dozen quiet channels she still had access to, and felt something cold and furious settle into her chest with every fresh confirmation. Ricardo Cavalli's daughter, alive. Returned. The two of them, according to every whisper reaching her, slowly, cautiously building something real between them, watched over by a growing circle of people determined to protect the fragile beginning of it. It shouldn't have been possible. She had spent years working every angle available to her, cultivating Margot as a quiet asset inside the Cavalli organization, testing Rhiannon's proximity to Harry as a way of finding new pressure points, circling patiently for the moment Ricardo's guard finally slipped enough to strike. All of it had unraveled in the span of a few short weeks. Margot, cooperating openly with Harry now, no longer answering to her at all. The Melissa and Rhiannon situation, whateve
Chapter 456. Cracks In The Families
The news moved through the Five Families faster than Harry had expected, faster than anyone could have controlled even with the careful, quiet arrangements he'd made around Lily's return. Within days, it seemed, every corner of that dangerous, watchful world knew Ricardo Cavalli's daughter, believed dead for seventeen years, was alive and back in his life.Harry felt the shift before anyone explicitly told him about it, a subtle change in the tenor of calls and messages that started reaching him from people connected to that world, careful questions dressed up as pleasantries, feelers extended just enough to test how much he might know or might be willing to say.Margot called him on the third day, her voice carrying the same clipped urgency he'd come to associate with genuinely important information rather than the careful games she used to play with him."You need to understand what's happening right now," she said, without preamble. "Ricardo's distracted. Emotionally exposed, for t
Chapter 455. Anna's Brother
The knock at the door came a little after ten in the morning, and Harry opened it to find a young man standing on the step, thinner than Harry remembered from the photographs Anna kept in her room, but steady in the eyes in a way that hadn't been there before. "Marcus," Harry said, then caught himself, remembering the boy went by his middle name now, had for months, ever since he'd started rebuilding himself piece by piece. "Sorry. Elias." "It's alright, either works." He smiled, a little nervous, a little hopeful. "I made it. Ninety days. Clean." "You look good," Harry said, and meant it. There was color in his face that hadn't been there the last time Harry had visited, a steadiness to how he stood that spoke to something real underneath it, not just the absence of whatever had been hurting him before. "I wanted to see her," Elias said. "If that's still alright. If she still wants to see me." Harry stepped back and opened the door wider. "She's out back. Come on." Anna was cro
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