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Once they’re gone, I turn toward Valeria.

“I want us to double your security.”

She cups my face in her hands before pressing a tender kiss to my lips. My arms immediately tighten around her.

“Fine… as long as you agree to the same thing for yourself.”

I answer by kissing her again.

I know Valeria has every reason to worry.

Wald could come after me too. Now that he has a formula he believes is viable, I’ve become his next potential target. In his eyes, I’m the one who could bring the treatment to market before he does.

Let him try.

But the days go by, and aside from the news about Cain’s disappearance, Wald doesn’t make a move.

No unusual financial activity.

No transfers.

No suspicious movement.

Even Henri is starting to doubt.

“Maybe he changed his mind,” he says. “Or maybe he figured out what we were trying to do.”

I hope not.

A man as powerful as him will only fall once his empire is on its knees.

Because even if we manage to prove his involvement in the attempt on Valeria’s life, as long as he still has money, he remains dangerous.

The waiting is wearing me down.

But I don’t have a choice.

For now, he’s the one in control.

54. You’re Bluffing

Bianca

Friday, January 20

This is all Valeria’s fault.

She should’ve stayed dead.

After all these years, I had finally managed to get close to Dante. He was almost mine. Almost.

Gaspard bears part of the blame too. When he approached me about Ciphera, I saw easy money. Nothing more. But Valeria resisted, clinging to her lofty principles.

Research shouldn’t be driven by profit.

Easy to say when you already have everything: talent, money, love. I’m just an employee.

And now she’s making me look like some hysterical idiot in front of Wald.