Chapter 215

• “Not going to tell me what that was all about, are you?” Chiara’s voice cut through the silence, her chuckle dry, and her brow arched in my direction.
• “Not right now, no.” I shook my head, avoiding her gaze.
• Truth was, I hadn’t fully wrapped my head around it either. Francesca and Leonardo could’ve broken up— or maybe she found her mate and left him. That thought stirred something almost satisfying within me. Mates often settled down and started families early on, after all. But another, darker possibility hovered at the edge of my mind—that the child she carried might actually be Leonardo’s. I shoved that thought down, locking it away.