CHAPTER 686. RED PROMISE. The End of a Chapter

For Ainara, it wasn’t good news, bad news, or any kind of news at all. She had never seen Senator Rosso’s son as her brother—not even her half-brother—and the fact that he was contacting her after the scandal had come to light was clearly no coincidence. The question remained: what were this man’s intentions?

“He wants to meet,” she murmured with a sigh, and Mauro stiffened.

“You can say no. You know you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to,” he told her.

“I know, but I thought… I don’t know. I think I’d rather know what I’m dealing with. If his intention is to hurt me somehow, I’d prefer to face him and figure it out sooner rather than later,” she declared.

Mauro wrapped her in a powerful hug and kissed her head gently.

“Alright, we’ll do it your way. Just promise me you’ll let me be there when you see him. I couldn’t stand the thought of anything happening to you—do you understand?”

She nodded slowly. While Mauro returned to thei