Chapter 12 - THE WOMAN WHO HAD NOTHING AND EVERYTHINGAvery starts over.
She gives up the luxury apartment.
She walks away from the Bennett fortune.
She returns to architecture.
For the first time, she designs buildings under her own name.
Luca transforms his legitimate businesses.
He closes operations connected to organized crime.
People question whether a man like him can truly change.
Avery doesn't answer for him.
She simply watches what he does.
Months pass.
Their relationship becomes stronger.
Luca never proposes.
Avery starts wondering why.
One night, she finally asks:
"Are you ever going to ask me?"
Luca smiles.
"Ask you what?"
"You know."
He shakes his head.
"Not until I'm certain you're not saying yes because you're afraid of losing me."
Avery realizes he remembers exactly how their relationship began.
She laughs.
"You are unbelievably frustrating."
"I've been told."
Then Avery receives a message.
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Her father wants to see her.
Richard is dying.
