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Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND SIX
Luciano’s POVThey say grief comes in waves. But no one ever tells you about the force with which each wave hits My thoughts raged.Even with the windows open and the late afternoon breeze stirring the sheer curtains, there was no comfort in the air. It felt… hollow. A shell of a home where laughter used to live, where plans were made, where lies and blood were spilled.I sat in the armchair in my study, fingers still wrapped around a half-empty glass of bourbon. It was warm now, forgotten. Like everything else.I hadn’t touched a file all day. Hadn’t made a call. Hadn’t answered Matteo’s text or Luca’s knock. I just sat here. Existing.No one prepares you for the aftermath. They talk about vengeance, justice, survival. But they don’t tell you what it’s like to walk out of a battlefield with everything you wanted and nothing you needed.Evangeline was dead.Emilio too.And Silas…I dragged my hand down my face and let the ache rise in my chest again. That familiar sting behind the ey
Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FIVE
Eli's povThe mansion had never been this quiet. Not even before the war.There were no more shots, gunshots. Nothing.But now… the silence felt final.The kind of silence that came after a storm—where the wind held its breath and everything you knew had been leveled to rubble.I sat on the edge of the garden bench, the stone cold beneath me. The roses Ricardo once tended stood tall, but there were no petals today—just stripped stems and browning leaves. It was like even the flowers were mourning him."You're up early." Matteo's voice broke the stillness, low and hoarse from a night with little sleep.I didn’t look at him. “Didn’t sleep.”He walked over, sitting beside me. We were both quiet for a moment. Just breathing. Just existing. I could feel the pain of everything sitting between us, unspoken but loud.“Gabriella called,” he said. “She asked if we were okay.”“Are we?”Matteo laughed, but it was hollow. “No. But we’re breathing.”We both went quiet again, the kind of silence th
Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR
Eli's povIt was silent.No more screams. No more bullets. Just the raw, aching pain of everything that had been lost.Bodies littered the field—some of them enemies, some of them not. Some faces we could never forget, now frozen in twisted expressions, mouths slightly parted like they still had something left to say.The war was over.But peace had never felt so cruel.We buried Emilio first. His face was calm in death, which made it all the more haunting. Luciano hadn’t said a word during the burial. He just stared at the body as if he was waiting for him to open his eyes and say something arrogant or stupid again. When the dirt finally hit the coffin, Luciano turned and walked away, shoulders tense, eyes blank. His silence was a language of its own.We let him go.He had killed his best friend.Grief wasn’t loud—it was quiet and cold. It settled into our bones like ice, numbing us slowly until we forgot what warmth had ever felt like. It crept into the corners of our days, dragging
Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND THREE
Eli’s POVI didn’t realize I had pulled the trigger until I heard it.The sound of the gunshot echoed through the chaos of the clearing like thunder—deadly, final, irreversible. For a split second, everything around us froze: the sway of the trees, the howl of wind, the distant crackling of burning brush. Even my heartbeat paused, stunned into silence.I stood there, breath caught in my throat, hand still extended, fingers wrapped tight around the gun like it had fused into my skin. Smoke flowing lazily from the barrel, going into the cold air like a ghost.She didn’t move at first.Evangeline.Her eyes widened slightly, blinking as if the sound had woken her from a dream. Her gaze dropped to her stomach and so did mine. A dark crimson stain was already spreading through her gown. Her fingers, adorned with the same rings she used to wear when tucking me in at night at her house, hovered shakily over the wound.It was only then I noticed it—real, genuine fear in her eyes.The woman who
Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND TWO
Eli’s POVI don’t know how long the fighting had gone on.All I knew was blood.The world had become red, soaked in ash and rage. Trees stood burning like we were in hell all around us. Bodies dropped and were stepped over like they meant nothing.Now wasn't the time to mourn. It was the time to fight and end it all for good.His smile kept replaying in my head. Despite everything he shielded me and took a bullet for me. We didn't get the chance to talk as brothers after so many years.He was gone. But he lived in me. I vowed to carry his memory for as long as I lived. But first, I needed to know who fired that shot and personally end them.Even as I fought, a smile lingered on my face at the thought of giving whoever shot Silas a slow and painful death. When one Moretti falls a thousand shall follow. He may not have been a Moretti by blood but he was one by cause and that was all that mattered.The air was filled with sorrow and anger. But I wasn’t thinking about the war anymore.
Bound by blood and lies CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND ONE
Eli’s POVThe first shot shattered broke us all into war.Gunfire erupted in every direction like an orchestra of death echoing through the trees. Bullets tore through bark and flesh alike. Smoke from the guns curled around the us. Screams, orders, battle cries—I couldn’t tell whose side was winning, just that people were falling, bleeding, dying.Matteo vanished into the heat of it all like a beast, moving with deadly precision as he took down enemy after enemy. Luca fought at my side, back-to-back, his blade gleaming in the light, slicing through the chaos.I fired until my arms shook, until my hands were blistered and my ears rang.Evangeline’s men didn’t retreat. They surged.We ducked behind a fallen tree. Luca’s shoulder was bleeding, but he didn’t stop. His breath was ragged, jaw clenched.“You good?” I shouted over the gunfire.“Not dead yet,” he growled.A flash grenade went off nearby, white light blinding. I staggered, vision reeling, and someone tackled me to the ground. M
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