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By saving Martina, I think I may have saved myself. I don’t feel like such an awful person anymore. When I look back on the woman I was, the one who tortured and killed those people, I see a broken soul trying her best to survive. It was the best I could do after being betrayed by those I trusted most. My parents. They put me into a horrific situation with no way out.
I see myself in Valentina and Martina.
But Damiano isn’t Lazaro, and I’m no longer compelled to act on anyone’s wishes but my own. If I agree to do this, it will be my choice. It will be a marriage of equals. There won’t be any secrets or lies or wool pulled over my eyes.
YES QUEEN!
“I have something to show you that should score a few points in my favor.” “I’ve already seen your penis.”
WHAT?….that’s…. amazinggg….
That’s when I know. I’m going to marry this man.
same
a small smile appears on the younger woman’s face, but it’s tinged with sadness. She needs to heal, and it will take some time. She carries a weight, just like I did. It’s something she’ll have to confront one day. When she’s ready, we’ll be here for her.
me
When his lips find mine and his tongue slips into my mouth, it feels like coming home. The first real home I’ve ever had.
i want to find love like theirs
My biggest regret is that I can’t give Vale the wedding she deserves, which is why I told her that she’ll have two—one now while her sister is here with us, and another once I take my place as don. I want to see her on the steps of the basilica in Naples where my parents got married.
I’d marry him on a trash island ffs.
Mine. The word echoes in my head up until she stops before me and lifts her eyes to meet mine.
JAKDHH HE JR
The garden, our friends, even the ground I stand on disappear. Everything but her blanks out. Inside those eyes is a promise of a future I never thought I’d have, and when her full lips quirk into a breathless smile, I grin and lift my face up to the azure sky.
Oh my god.
I lace her fingers with mine. I do need her. Her wisdom, her strength, and her courage. Just looking at her fills me with certainty there’s only one way for this to end.
I want him so bad
“Before I met you, I thought romantic love made people crazy and weak. I was right about the first. Cazzo, I’m so fucking crazy about you. But love doesn’t make us weak. It’s the opposite. It shows us what we absolutely can’t lose—what’s worth dying for. I’d die for you, Vale.”
UGHHHHHHHH
