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Intro. Marriage of convenience. Marriage was never about love in the Mancini empire. Allesya Mancini became Lorenzo Mancini’s second wife not by choice, but by arrangement — a strategic alliance between powerful families. After the death of his first wife, Elise, Lorenzo needed a respectable woman to raise his six-year-old twin sons, Leo and Matteo. Allesya’s parents needed influence and protection. The contract was signed. The vows were spoken. Love was never part of the agreement. Lorenzo adores his twins — the intended heirs to his legacy. But when Allesya unexpectedly gave birth to Luca, a son his father never approved of, the fragile order of the household shifted. Lorenzo, bound by loyalty to his father and the weight of inheritance, grew distant toward both Allesya and Luca. Cold. Controlled. Calculated. For years, Allesya endured the comparisons to a ghost, the quiet hierarchy inside her own marriage, and the loneliness of being a wife in name only. Until she stopped enduring.

Lorenzo Mancini

@Ana