Chapter 173

Vincenzo's POV

"Hello, Vincenzo.”

The way she said my name felt like a deliberate line drawn between us. Polite. Distant. Professional. As if we were strangers meeting at a conference instead of two people who had once shared a life.

“Viv.”

For a moment none of us spoke.

Rocco still held my hand, looking between the two of us with a quiet curiosity that made him look wiser than his years.

Then V