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"Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." - 2 Corinthians 3:17

Italy, March 6th, 2026. 08:55 am

Giovanna Bianchi

RBC Construction

- These two are incredible, the best uncles for the girls, send a kiss and a hug to Branca and the twins.

- Stay with God, dear.

- God bless you too, Armani. - I smile and he leaves.

Meeting room

We're in the meeting room in total silence, nobody's saying anything and it's getting on my nerves, I'm too anxious. Harrison, my father's lawyer, is trying to understand, as is Lorenzo's lawyer.

- Well, as you know, I called you in to settle our divorce.

- How? After your father died, we tried everything and nothing worked. - Lorenzo says in disbelief

- It turns out that Brian was looking for answers for me and that's why Dylan is here, he's a judge and he's going to mediate our separation.

- You know you can't do that, Miss Giovanna, unless you want to lose all your assets and leave your siblings with nothing too. - Harrison, my father's lawyer, speaks.

- I've discovered something interesting Harrison, I've discovered that my father has bought all the judges in Italy with the help of your mutual friend, the Prime Minister.

- What are you talking about, Giovanna? - Lorenzo asked shocked

- That's right Lorenzo, my father didn't change the contract.

- How do you know that?

- Our marriage wouldn't be valid if we'd signed the contract here, but since we signed it in Brazil and it was notarized it was valid, the truth is that none of this is real. My father has made a joke of our lives.

- What do you have to say about that? - Dylan asked Harrison, who was looking irritated at all of us.

- Nothing Dylan, if you're expecting a confession from me, I'm sorry, but you won't hear anything from me.

- We don't need to, Harrison, your face already tells us what we need to know. The only reason I'm here is to sign the divorce, aware of everything I'm doing here.

- Okay, I'll sign it. That way you'll leave me alone once and for all.

- Of course, darling. - I said ironically to him.

- Where? - he asked the lawyers.

- I just need to see the terms. - Giovanni, Lorenzo's lawyer, is speaking.

- I did everything Giovanna asked, as they married in partial separation of assets, I put everything she acquired during the marriage, with the purchase of John Castellamari's shares, she became the majority shareholder and the construction company doesn't come into the divorce process, besides being an inheritance from both of them, the purchase was made under the surname Rinaldi.

- Lorenzo bought some things too, I know because at the beginning we shared an e-mail account where everything we bought arrived in that e-mail as a receipt. So I asked Jenna to include that in the paperwork too. - I explained to Giovanni

- Right, let me have a look. - Jenna handed him the papers and he went through them. - It's all right, Lorenzo, would you like to have a look?

- Yes, Lorenzo. - he said, taking the papers and looking them over.

- Everything's fine, there's just one thing, our daughters, you didn't put them here so we could have some kind of shared custody.

- I know, since you and Mia aren't at the best of times and Aurora is going through some problems, I thought it would be good not to put it in, I thought you wanted to win their trust first. I don't want them to feel obliged to come to your house, I want them to go of their own free will and be excited about it. I want them to be happy, that's all, and when all that gets better, we'll talk about shared custody again. - I explained, trying to be as flexible as possible with him because of the girls.

- I agree with you, all I want is to see my daughters happy. To win their love again. - he agreed with me and then smiled

- That's it, are you going to keep custody of the girls? - Dylan asked.

- Yes.