Chapter 79 – The Child of Two Names
**** Isabelle’s POV ****
The mansion was quieter than I’d heard it in weeks, but it was the kind of quiet that didn’t soothe—it lingered in the corners like dust in sunlight, a stillness heavy with thought. Somewhere upstairs, Dante was in his office with Luca, going over the last of the legal paperwork for what we were about to do. Down here, in the west sitting room, I sat with the boy.
Matteo’s son.
He was curled into one of the velvet chairs, legs drawn up, a book on his lap that he wasn’t really reading. His eyes—the same deep brown as Matteo’s—shifted between the page and the window, his small fingers turning a page every few minutes whether or not he’d read the words. I didn’t interrupt. For the past week since we’d brought him here, I’d learn
