That’s enough.
Epilogue
Elsa
There are boxes everywhere.
Open ones on the floor. Taped ones by the door. Half-filled ones in the closet, each labeled in my neat black handwriting.
The morning at Northstar already feels like it happened in another life.
I went in, sat down, and told them everything.
Well… almost everything.
I told them about making it to the gala and not finding the people I was supposed to meet. About meeting Antonio without knowing who he really was. About learning the truth the next morning and making it very clear that by then I’d already made up my mind about Bellandi. Antonio hadn’t influenced that decision. He’d only complicated everything that came after.
I told them about the surveillance. The Bellandis following me. Following them. About Antonio coming to New York to protect me. About the break-in, the recording, and the wayeverything spiraled from there until the attack at the doctor’s office.
That part, I kept simple.
Antonio stopped them.
That was enough.
I told them I needed to step away from the company—for personal and professional reasons—and waited for the judgment to come.
It never really did.
There was silence. A few grim faces. Some shock. Some gratitude when I explained just how closely Bellandi had been watching them and that people from Conti Operations had stepped in to protect them before things got worse.
They accepted my resignation with a kind of solemn professionalism. I cleared out my office. And before lunch, I was gone.
Just like that.
By the time I got back here, my apartment didn’t feel like home anymore.
It felt like somewhere I used to live.
A shell I’d already started shedding.
I’m not coming back.
That thought should hurt more thanit does.
But every time it lands, another rises right behind it.
I’m moving in with Antonio.
We’re starting a family together.
That still doesn’t feel entirely real, even with twins growing inside me and the man I love in the next room packing my things like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
It feels too big to fully understand.
Too life-altering.
Too perfect.
