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Chapter 47 - The Ashes Of Home

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Smoke clung to Talana’s skin as she ran, breath hitching, blood pounding in her ears. Behind her, the ambush was still raging, fire crackling, bullets tearing through trees like banshees screaming in the dark, but her mind was elsewhere, miles away.

She grabbed her earpiece, shouting into the chaos. “Sanchiano base! Come in! Anyone!”

Only static answered.

Massimo stumbled beside her, coughing, limping heavily. “What did he mean, ‘already done’?”

“Pablo,” she hissed, fury sharpening every syllable. “He wasn’t after us. He knew we’d come for them. That wasn’t the real war. They struck where we were weak.”

Gianna slid behind them, face smeared in soot and blood. “We have to get back. Now.”

“No,” Massimo growled, grabbing Talana’s arm. “We don’t run. If we turn around now, we give them time to vanish.”

Talana jerked away, eyes blazing. “This isn’t about strategy anymore. This is about family.”

Then Lorenzo’s voice crackled in. “Talana, we’ve got contact from the estate. It’s bad.
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