emotions shook her-attraction, doubt, fascination, but above all, an increasing fear of what all this could mean. The youn

absorbed in her thoughts, her gaze fixed on a distant point. Loana couldn't help but notice the melancholy in her eyes, as if she were weig

past, something inside her told her that there were untold stories, f

r began to speak. The conversation started with something trivial, a

e coming to this house, I had a very different life. Not everything has been as you think.

re was something in her voice, in her expression, that made her feel she was abou

sked cautiously, a strange un

h time, lost in painful memories. Finally, she sighed, and her next wo

young man, full of dreams. My family and his... we had a bond, although no one remembers it anymore."- She paused, her voice faltering sligh

in her words, something unspoken that she couldn't grasp, but that she could feel like a w

her tone insistent despite the nervousnes

to tell her the truth. A long silence stretched

as difficult, and your grandparents put me on this path because there was no other

ge her perception of everything, was buried beneath the words left unsaid. As her mother busied hersel

ing, searching for something-anything-that could shed light on the mysteries surrounding the Ionescu family. As she entered the service area, she recalled seeing an o

d it carefully and exami

oud posture exuded an air of both nobility and sorrow. But what caught Loana's attention the most was the way she stood next to Mihai's

brary creaked open, and Loana instinctively to

as M

He looked distracted, lost in thought, and Loana felt a surge of nervousnes

He entered the library and

only a moment befo

lit space, dust floated in the air, and time seemed to stand still. The scent of old paper and forgotten memories filled the room

photographs, aged letters tied with silk ribbons, and yellowed newspaper clippings. Her fingers trac

otog

she had seen earlier. She was standing beside Mihai's father, but what sent shivers down Loa

hotograph over, h

the back in delicate

read it, her

grandmoth

s mind

tertwined with Mihai's in w

re now beginning to surface, threatening

ned home, her mother's w

d in this, Loana.

s already

already

m this moment on, the