Julian didn't want her apology. There was something else he needed her to understand first.
Bianca's brows pulled together. "She won in the end, didn't she?"
"Did she? She didn't, B. Yes, Luca's mother left the famiglia but she still never got my father, not in the way she wanted. He didn't love her the way he loved Carol. Don tried to hide his affection behind his usual steel of course, but we all knew, we knew that Carol was important to him. And when she left, my mother couldn't take her place."
"What are you trying to say? That even if I win this battle, I still wont have Luca?" Bianca asked.
"I'm saying, I am worried about you. I am afraid for you. Bianca, I love you and I do not like what this quest is doing to you."
