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Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 39
The ripple didn’t come all at once.It began quietly.A single move.A subtle shift.A whisper in a Geneva banking room about a Marchesi shipment rerouted through Montenegro. A nervous courier in Istanbul mentioning the word “defection.” A forged wire transfer tied to Seraphina’s name traced to Zurich.All false.All planted.All designed by Lucien.By the time the whispers reached Gabe and Julian, the false narrative was a fully breathing myth—a story of internal collapse, betrayal among Lucien’s men, and Seraphina preparing to vanish with a cache of stolen intel.Exactly as planned.Julian Cristoff threw a glass across the room.It shattered against the wall of the rented flat in Barcelona, narrowly missing Gabe’s head.“Goddammit, we should have moved on him sooner,” Julian snarled.Gabe ducked reflexively, still nursing the healing graze Seraphina had gifted him days ago. “You’re sure the intel’s real?”“I’m sure it’s real enough for him to want us to believe it’s real,” Julian sn
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 38
The morning sun cast a golden hue over the Marchesi estate, but Lucien's mood was anything but serene. In the surveillance room, the flickering monitors displayed various angles of the estate. One feed caught his attention—a brief, almost imperceptible glitch. He rewound the footage, eyes narrowing as he spotted the anomaly: a drone, sleek and silent, hovering just beyond the perimeter before darting away."Matteo," Lucien called, his voice calm but laced with urgency.Matteo entered swiftly, his expression attentive. "Yes, boss?"Lucien pointed to the screen. "We had an uninvited guest. A drone. High-end, likely military-grade. It was surveying our grounds."Matteo's jaw tightened. "You think it's them?"Lucien nodded. "Gabe and Julian Cristoff. They're getting bolder."Anton entered, having overheard the conversation. "What's the plan?"Lucien leaned back, fingers steepled. "We feed them a story. If they want to watch, let's give them a show."Lucien gathered Seraphina, Matteo, and
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 37
Later, in the dim quiet of Lucien’s private lounge, Seraphina sat cross-legged on the leather couch, a glass of brandy in her hand. She hadn’t changed. Her sleeve was still torn where Gabe’s shoulder had clipped her mid-scuffle.Lucien entered carrying a fresh ice pack. Without a word, he knelt beside her and reached for her wrist.She flinched—just slightly.Lucien paused. “It’s just cold.”“I’m not afraid of cold,” she murmured.He wrapped the pack gently around her wrist anyway. “Then what are you afraid of?”She didn’t answer.Not right away.He didn’t push.Eventually, she whispered, “That I’ll forget why I came here.”Lucien looked up at her. “Why did you come here?”She hesitated. “To burn everything down.”He nodded. “And now?”“I don’t know anymore.”Lucien leaned back against the couch, his shoulder brushing hers.“I know what they did to you,” he said. “Julian. Gabe. What they stole. What they turned you into.”Seraphina stared into her glass. “They didn’t turn me into anyt
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 36
The wind picked up around midnight, and with it came something else—something colder.A tremor in the silence.A fracture in the dark.Lucien stood in the control room of the Marchesi estate, eyes on the security feeds, which flickered once—then twice—before stabilizing. His expression remained calm, but his fingers curled slightly on the edge of the console.“Anton,” he said without raising his voice, “code black. Lock every interior corridor and activate ghost protocol.”Anton, who’d been standing beside the thermal display, turned sharply. “Now?”Lucien nodded once. “It’s starting.”Three kilometers out, two armored SUVs cut through the vineyards under cover of dense Sicilian fog.Inside one, Julian loaded a short-barrel submachine gun with smooth, practiced motions. He wore black leather gloves, and his expression bore none of the nervous energy that typically accompanied such operations.“You sure this isn’t a trap?” Gabe asked beside him, already sweating through his shirt.“If
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 35
The sun dipped low behind the stone walls of the Marchesi estate, casting golden shards of light through the vine-laced windows of the war room. A breeze filtered in, soft with lavender and salt, but the air inside was heavy—pressed down with something unspoken.Seraphina sat alone at the table, her back straight, her expression unreadable. Before her lay a packet of documents, bound by a red thread. They had arrived by drone drop—anonymously, from a neutral handler known only to Lucien’s extended intelligence web.She’d opened the packet slowly, as if the pages might bite.And maybe they had.Her fingers hovered over the last page. The letter. Written in Gabe’s handwriting. Or at least someone who had forged it with meticulous cruelty.She thinks she’s the queen. Let her play the part. When we’re done, Lucien won’t know whether she was his salvation or the sharpest knife in the drawer.It was dated three months ago.Three months. Which meant Julian and Gabe hadn’t just gone to ground
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 34
The estate was quiet.Too quiet.Not in the way that suggested danger. But in that rare, strange pause where no one died, no one betrayed anyone, and the halls didn’t echo with the steps of men carrying loaded weapons.It should have felt like peace.To Seraphina, it felt like exposure.She sat alone on the balcony of her private quarters, legs curled beneath her, hair unbound. Her eyes traced the low hills that framed the edge of the vineyard. Somewhere beyond them, Gabe and Julian were still alive. Still breathing. Still plotting. Monsters . The architects of everything that had happened to her.And yet...All she could think about was Lucien.He hadn’t knocked when he entered her room the night before. He hadn’t needed to. The way they moved around each other now—like two planets shifting closer with every pass—made permission irrelevant.They hadn’t kissed.They hadn’t touched.But that was almost worse.Because there was nothing accidental left between them.Everything was a choi
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