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Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 42
The sky was a murky silver, the kind that made the Mediterranean shimmer like glass—and somewhere beneath that smooth, deceptive surface, something began to boil.Lucien woke with the chill of dread clinging to his skin.Seraphina’s side of the bed was empty.Not just empty—cold.He dressed in silence, movements automatic, his mind already calculating timelines, security routes, guard rotations. When he reached the greenhouse, it was empty. No guards at the usual station. The perimeter gate on the northeast wall showed a silent breach—clean, undetectable by the casual observer.But not by him.Matteo appeared, breathless. “She’s gone.”Lucien said nothing.Not at first.He simply turned toward the control room.They watched the security feed frame by frame.“Here,” Anton said, pointing. “That’s her. See the bag? She only takes that when she’s going out alone. She received a message on her burner—encrypted, routed through a blind signal we hadn’t flagged.”Lucien stared at the screen,
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 41
The sun hadn’t yet risen when the walls of the Marchesi estate began whispering secrets.Matteo stood motionless in the east corridor, his body pressed into shadow, eyes fixed on the door of Guest Suite 4B. The room hadn’t been occupied in weeks—or so everyone believed. But now, at 3:41 a.m., the sensor blinked green. Motion detected. Door opened.Anton’s voice crackled softly in his earpiece. “Movement confirmed. Entry. One figure.”“Copy,” Matteo whispered, sliding his sidearm loose from its holster.He didn’t rush.He didn’t need to.This wasn’t about catching prey.This was about letting the rat believe it had found the cheese.Vincenzo stood in the server room, observing the access logs populating in real-time. His eyes tracked the digital fingerprints with clinical precision.“The guest wing’s signal matches the burner used to leak our vault routes to Adriana’s people,” he said. “They’re still using last quarter’s ghost protocol. Sloppy.”Lucien, standing at his side, was silent
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 40
The blinking red light on the server console was barely visible through the matte black housing of Matteo’s encrypted data vault—but once spotted, it might as well have been a siren.Anton crouched beside him, running the diagnostics with tight precision. Matteo didn’t speak. He didn’t curse. His silence said more than either of them wanted to admit.The breach wasn’t external.It came from inside the estate.“I’ve got three pings,” Anton said, voice clipped. “One at 03:14. One just before dawn. One twenty minutes ago. All accessing Level 3 files. Restricted logs on Lucien’s trade partners, Seraphina’s clearance movements, and internal safehouse inventories.”Matteo swore under his breath. “Someone’s trying to learn who Lucien trusts. And who he protects.”Anton’s eyes locked with his. “You think they’re targeting her?”Ma
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
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