He saw her first... He let her go first.

Luciano Sergo never believed in chains—but he was bound by them. He only ever wanted freedom. But freedom came in the shape of a woman he was never meant to keep.

She was running.... but not from him

Ellena Farrali was already lost when he found her, drowning in a world that had swallowed her whole. Maybe that’s why he reached for her—because he wasn’t saving her. Not really. He was drowning too.

She was the tie he could never shake. The one he could never keep.
And the deeper he fell, the more he realized—some ties were never meant to be broken