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Five years after Luca Moretti walked away from the only man he ever loved, the city barely recognizes him anymore.
He is colder now. Quieter. Sharper around the edges.
The reckless boy who raced to disappear is gone-replaced by a man who survives because someone depends on him.
Luca is a father.
Not by blood, but by choice.
His son-three years old, loud, fearless, and loved too fiercely-is the only soft thing Luca allows himself. The boy is raised inside a house full of violence-turned-loyalty: a mafia stepfather who would burn the city for him, stepbrothers who treat him like something sacred, and a grandmother who kisses his scraped knees like they're miracles.
Luca never moved on.
He just stopped hoping.
Elliot Ríos disappeared after the war, believing Luca had built a life without him-believing that was the only way they both survived. He didn't know about the child. He didn't know about the nights Luca spent staring at empty roads. He didn't know the love was still there, intact and unspent.
Until a small boy collides with him on a sidewalk.
Until a child with Luca's eyes and Luca's temper looks up at him and says, without hesitation:
"Sorry, Dad."
And then, pointing at Luca-
"My other Dad."
Book Three is about coming home after devastation, about chosen family, about learning how to love again when the cost is no longer just your own heart.
Because some loves don't end.
They just wait until the people involved are strong enough to survive them.