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Chapter 538. Full Circle
The café hadn't changed much in the years since Carmen and Pedro had first reconnected there, the same chipped tile floor, the same crooked sign above the counter that nobody had ever bothered fixing. Carmen sat at their usual table by the window, watching Pedro argue good naturedly with the barista about whether the espresso machine was finally, actually broken this time or just being temperamental again.She still caught herself sometimes, thinking back on the woman she'd been when all of this started, desperate and uncertain, caught in a version of her life that had never really belonged to her, chasing something that always felt just out of reach. That woman felt distant now, almost like someone else entirely, replaced slowly and steadily by whoever she'd become sitting in this exact seat, waiting for a man who never once made her feel like she had to prove her worth to deserve his patience.She remembered, clearer than she wanted to sometimes, the version of herself who used to
Chapter 537. What Honesty Built
The handoff happened on the front steps of the renovated building most Sundays now, easy and practiced in a way that still sometimes surprised Harry when he thought back on how badly it could have gone. Clara stood with a small backpack slung over one shoulder, their daughter already halfway up the steps toward Brandon before either parent had finished saying goodbye."She left her stuffed rabbit in your car last time," Clara said, handing over a folded piece of paper with something written on it. "New pickup schedule for next month. I switched two of the Saturdays because of a work thing.""Works for me," Brandon said, glancing over it and folding it into his jacket pocket without complaint.There was no tension in it, none of the careful negotiating that divorced parents sometimes had to perform in front of their kids to prove things were fine when they weren't. This was simply how it worked now, had worked for months, two people who'd chosen honesty over convenience back when it
Chapter 536. Anna's World
The house smelled like pancakes when Harry came downstairs, which had become such a normal Saturday morning smell by now that he almost didn't register how strange it would have sounded to the version of himself from a few years back. Anna sat at the kitchen table already, homework spread out despite it being the weekend, her brother standing at the stove attempting something with the pancake batter that looked more ambitious than the recipe probably called for."He's trying to make them shaped like animals," Anna said, without looking up from her math worksheet. "It's not working.""It's working fine," her brother said, flipping one that looked, generously, like it might have once been intended as a rabbit.Harry poured himself coffee and leaned against the counter, watching the two of them bicker with the easy comfort of people who trusted each other completely, and felt something settle in his chest the way it always did lately in small domestic moments like this. Anna's brother
Chapter 535. The Agency
The Savour Agency occupied three floors now instead of one, and Harry still wasn't quite used to that when he walked in on a Tuesday morning, coffee in hand, no meeting scheduled, just there because he wanted to be. Susan spotted him from across the open floor and didn't look surprised, just waved him toward her office with the easy authority of someone who'd been running the place long enough to stop needing his approval for anything."You're early," she said, not looking up from the folder in front of her. "Or late. I've stopped keeping track of your schedule.""Just wanted to see how things were going," Harry said."Things are going well," Susan said, finally glancing up. "Which you'd know if you checked the reports I send you every month instead of showing up in person to ask me directly."He laughed, because she wasn't wrong, and because there was something he genuinely liked about being told off gently by someone who'd earned the right to do it. Susan had built the agency into
Chapter 534. Softer at the Edges
The last time Harry had stood in a room with all Five Families present, there had been armed men at every door and a tribunal underway that could have ended with someone dead before the night was through. This time there was a long table covered in food nobody was rushing to eat, low music coming from somewhere near the bar, and Ricardo's youngest cousin arguing cheerfully with one of the Moretti sons about whose recipe for the sauce was actually better.It was, technically, a Five Families gathering. In practice it looked more like a wedding reception without a wedding, which Harry supposed was exactly the point. Ricardo had wanted something ordinary, something that let people sit in a room together without anyone quietly counting exits or wondering who had brought a weapon inside their jacket.Harry stood near the window with a drink he wasn't really drinking, watching the room the way he still sometimes couldn't help doing, old habits from a more dangerous version of this world li
Chapter 533. On Her Own Timeline
Lily's flat in the city was small, unglamorous in a way that would have horrified Ricardo if he'd ever said so out loud, which he hadn't, not once, not since she'd made it clear she wanted this exact ordinary space and nothing grander offered in its place. She liked the mismatched furniture. She liked that the radiator clanked in the mornings and that her downstairs neighbor left a spare key under a plant pot she never once had to use. She'd built a version of herself in England once, quiet and careful and entirely her own, and she wasn't willing to let being Ricardo Cavalli's daughter erase that version just because she'd chosen, finally, to let her father back into her life. She kept her job, a small position at a design firm that had nothing to do with anyone's last name, and she liked that the people there had no idea what the name Cavalli meant outside of an old pasta brand one of them had joked about once, not realizing how close the joke landed. She kept her friends who
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