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Cold hearts: secrets within
An emotionally cold pakhan is forced into a marriage of convenience by his grandfather to hold an alliance with the Italians. He hated it so did she, after a drunken night where she had gotten pregnant with twins he accused her of…
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…The implications slammed into him with the force of a physical blow. The attacks weren’t just about the alliance, about power. They were personal. Rooted in something far older, far more dangerous than he had ever imagined. His focus on Isabella, on the perceived threat she represented, had blinded him to the true enemy, an enemy that had been lurking in the shadows for years, waiting. The wooden bird, clutched in his suddenly damp palm, was a chilling testament to that truth. The carefully constructed walls around his cold heart had not just cracked; they were beginning to crumble, revealing the raw, exposed foundations of a much older, and far more terrifying, war.