CHAPTER 670. RED PROMISE. Why?

Her lips trembled, and she couldn’t stop it. Ainara knew Mauro had every right to demand answers, to make a scene, to rage over what that idiot Rolf Weber had just told him. But to her surprise, Mauro was as calm as if he hadn’t just punched a senator in the face in the very same office.

She felt his arms around her and buried her face in his chest with a nervous sigh.

“Her mother’s name was Luzia,” she murmured slowly, without lifting her head. “She had… an affair with Weber, though I’m not sure you could call it that. I mean, I understand how hard it must be to say no to a powerful man when he’s fixated on you…”

“You’ve experienced that firsthand, haven’t you?” Mauro sighed, his voice tinged with regret.

“No,” she said firmly, lifting her head and meeting his eyes, her voice full of certainty. “Not even in your worst moments have I ever been just a whim to you.”

Mauro gently cupped her face, brushing her lips with his. He loved this woman with a kind o