**Stefano's POV**
I moved restlessly through the living room, like a trapped animal, my shoes thumping on the tiles. My hands shook, not from weakness but from an intense rage that seemed to hum with electricity beneath my skin.
Elario sat on the sofa with his face buried in his palms, while Luca stood by the door, his body stiff, watching me with wide eyes as if he expected me to explode at any moment.
My chest tightened, and the anger ripped out of me. “f**k!” My voice bounced off the walls hard enough to shake something loose inside me. “I can’t believe this is really happening.”
A week. One f*****g agonizing, hellish week.
Elena had been missing for an entire goddamn week. No calls. No messages. No sightings on any security feeds. No trace of her anywhere. It felt as if she had be
