CHAPTER 672. RED PROMISE. A Cold Case

Ainara felt a cold sweat breaking out. It couldn’t be. These people had truly been on her trail for a long time—long enough to try sabotaging Mauro’s business deals.

“But I don’t understand. Why? Why deny you the contract? What did that have to do with…?” She stopped mid-sentence, her expression attentive because the answer, surprising as it was, could only be one. “To make me come out,” she said, looking at Mauro. “You had me ‘hidden,’ remember?”

Mauro pressed his lips together in frustration because he knew it was true. That woman or her husband—he wasn’t sure which—had believed that removing Ainara from the picture would make it easier to reach the girl. But everything had come to a halt the moment Mauro entered her life.

“They knew you’d show up, that you’d have to ask Rosso for help, and that they’d find you through me,” Mauro murmured. “They did it to find you through me.”

And though neither of them said it aloud, the looks Mauro exchanged w