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Chapter 42: The Return of the Heir

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The Rossi safehouse lay in ruins behind them, its flames reduced to a skeleton of blackened beams. The last of the fire hissed against smoldering rubble, smoke curling upward in ghostly ribbons. Even from blocks away, Adriana could still taste ash on her tongue. The destruction felt alive—breathing, watching, whispering a warning over the rooftops of a city already trembling under the weight of war.

Word would spread fast. Faster than bullets. Faster than forgiveness.

By the time Adriana and Damian crossed into the safe quarter of the Moretti district, their clothes were torn and scorched, their bodies aching from smoke and adrenaline. Yet something about their presence cut through the night like lightning—sharp, undeniable, impossible to ignore. Footsteps scraped across the pavement. Shadows shifted. One by one, Moretti soldiers emerged from doorways and alley mouths, guns lowered in shock rather than raised in suspicion.

“Boss…” one whispered, the single word cracking like glass.

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