Chapter 236

Viviana's POV

The ride home from the hospital was quiet. It wasn't uncomfortable or tense, just quiet. The kind of silence that comes after you've cried so much there are simply no tears left for the moment.

I sat beside Vincenzo in the backseat, staring out of the window as Milan drifted past in a blur of buildings, people, and ordinary lives.

Everything looked so normal, so unchanged. As though