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Chapter 32
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Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 33
The air above the Cosenza compound smelled of rust, old oil, and something bitter—like burned coffee and cordite.Lucien stood in the open troop vehicle as it rolled through the last of the gravel path. A drone buzzed overhead, one of four, tracking the angles of entry, monitoring thermal signals.Matteo crouched over the mobile monitor inside, scanning live feeds.“No movement inside the primary corridor,” Matteo muttered. “But someone was here last night. The main gate sensor tripped for seventeen seconds. Then silence.”Lucien said nothing.His eyes stayed fixed on the compound.An old petroleum storage facility, it stretched out like a concrete corpse — long storage domes, collapsed piping, sun-eaten signage. The place should’ve been demolished a decade ago.Instead, it had become bait.Or so Cristiano wanted him to believe.But Lucien wasn’t here to play his brother’s game.He was here to finish it.“Three minutes out,” Matteo said into his comm. “Teams Alpha and Bravo in positio
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 32
The first move in any war isn’t fire.It’s silence.Lucien stood before the master table in the war room, an ocean of glass and blue-lit screens reflecting on his face like moonlight on steel. Across from him, Seraphina sat cross-legged on the leather armchair, quiet but attentive, her focus razor-sharp.Matteo stood just behind, arms folded, expression unreadable.Anton remained in Palermo, strengthening alliances.Vincenzo handled the flow of currency and men behind the scenes.Which left Lucien, Seraphina, and Matteo to carry out what came next.Lucien gestured toward the center monitor, where a schematic of one of ValeCorp’s old logistics hubs blinked in ghostly green.It was a dormant asset. One of Julian's original smuggling pivots.“I want this property listed on the black ledger,” Lucien said.Matteo frowned. “It’s flagged and frozen. Why light it up now?”“Because they’ll see it,” Seraphina answered for him. “And think we’re distracted.”Lucien nodded.“It’ll look like we’re
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 31
The ambush hadn’t left a scratch on Lucien’s body.But it had opened a wound in his mind.He sat alone in the eastern gallery, light from the window striping across his cheekbones like pale scars. The gallery was quiet, hung with ancestral portraits that stared down with frozen judgment.Lucien ignored them.In front of him: a projected image from the attack site — frozen, blurred, then slowly enhanced by Matteo’s surveillance team.A single man. Slender build. Wavy dark hair.A hundred yards from the ridge, angled just enough away from the main cameras to obscure his face.But not enough.Lucien’s fingers clenched.The silhouette was older now, broader in the shoulders, but the stance… the tilt of the head… the arrogance in posture…It was unmistakable.Cristiano.The bastard wasn’t just alive.He’d been watching.From the shadows. From the side of the mountain. Not leading the ambush—but calculating its outcome.The implication was worse than Lucien had expected.Cristiano had plann
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 30
The road to Cefalù curled like an old scar across the hills.The sky was still grey from the morning’s mist, though the vineyards below the cliffs shimmered in slow golden light. Cypress trees bordered the narrow route, tall and slender, like sentinels carved from grief.Lucien rode in silence.The black Maserati swept smoothly through the curves, Matteo at the wheel, eyes behind dark glasses, jaw tight as usual. In the back seat, Lucien sat with Seraphina beside him, a fine-cut charcoal suit hanging on him like second skin. Her hand rested loosely on her thigh. She didn’t reach for his.But she was close enough to feel the weight in his chest.They hadn’t spoken since leaving the estate.There was no need.This wasn’t a conversation.It was a ritual.A pilgrimage.Today marked the anniversary ofValeria Marchesi’s death—and her birthday. The cruel symmetry of it was
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 29
The rain fell in a hush, soft as secrets.Seraphina stood in the Marchesi library, surrounded by old tomes and the faint crackle of firelight. The estate had grown eerily quiet — not in danger, not in disarray — but a hush that came when the wolves had fed and the world waited for them to stir again.Lucien wasn’t in the house. Not in his study. Not in the war room. Not even in the cellar where he sometimes disappeared when words became too heavy and orders too many.Anton had said he was out overseeing new shipments.Matteo had just grinned and shrugged.Vincenzo — always careful — had changed the subject.Which meant one thing: they were protecting him.And Lucien only needed protection when the past was clawing at him again.Seraphina didn’t mean to go digging.But the moment her hand brushed the uneven spine on the shelf near the desk, and that small hidden panel clicked open &mdas
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 28
The Marchesi estate had never known quiet like this. Not in decades.Not the silence of defeat, or the hush that followed violence.This was a rare quiet. The kind that came with control.With order.Lucien stood on the west terrace in the last light of day, watching the vineyard shadows stretch like sleeping beasts across the hills. The sea was just visible between cypress branches, waves calm and unapologetic.It had been three days since Palermo.Three days since the world bowed to his name.And for the first time in months, there were no meetings. No knives waiting in the dark. No men needing to be reminded where their bloodlines ended and his began.The empire was running smoothly—thanks to Vincenzo’s calculated calm and Anton’s efficiency.The palace breathed again.And so did he.But still, something in him itched. Not a warning. Not a threat.Something quieter.Someth
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