Claudia shoved the barefoot child through the open terrace doors into the snow and threw the gift after him
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Chapter 7
I removed Mark from Bellacorte command.
Immediately.
Not from fatherhood.
That was not mine to erase.
But no capo meetings.
No security decisions.
No access to family discipline structures.
No using Bellacorte men to control where Grace went.
He stared at me.
“You’re choosing her.”
“No.”
I looked toward Noah.
“I’m choosing the child you turned into a battlefield.”
Different.
Claudia lost all authority over household staff and Noah’s routines.
No punishments.
No schedule decisions.
No private access unless Grace agreed.
She called it humiliation.
I said:
“No. Humiliation is what you did to a barefoot child while guests watched.”
May you like
She stopped.
Good.
