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Chapter 84

Author: DGorgeous1
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-22 16:14:53

The air in Carrara was crisp and indifferent as Seraphina Vale stepped onto the tarmac. The wind curled across the distant marble cliffs like smoke from an extinguished fire. Beneath her poised exterior, however, a storm had been gathering for years—one born not in blood, but in betrayal.

She had learned early that survival was not something inherited; it was constructed.

Ten years ago, she had been just fifteen, tucked in the protective uniformity of her elite boarding school in Florence. When the news came—a car accident, her mother dead—everything about her world collapsed inward.

It wasn’t the death that haunted her. It was the location: a secluded stretch of private land owned by Gabriel Vale Sr., her wealthy, powerful stepfather. The man who had made himself family after sweeping her and her mother into his life. Merielle had been there for a supposed charity event. And she had died alone—no other witnesses.

What followed were official statements, reports of failed brakes, drive
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    The sound came first. Dull, mechanical, steady.Lucien blinked once.Then again.A slow, rhythmic beeping, like a clock carved from breath and wires. The ceiling above him was soft beige, sterile but not unfamiliar. He inhaled deeply, the sharp tug of a rib injury clenching in protest.He didn’t need to look to know he was in a recovery suite, cleaner than a hospital, quieter than a safehouse. And far too still.His body felt heavier than it should. Sedatives. Monitors tracked the beat of his heart, the rhythm of his lungs.He turned his head.Lucio wasn’t there.Neither was Seraphina.Panic tried to surface, but something stronger held it back. The same thing that had always steadied him when the world burned.Control.He shifted slightly, triggering the soft chime of a proximity sensor. A second later, the door opened, and Vincenzo entered, dressed in black, dark circles under his eyes. But relief crossed his face when he saw Lucien awake.“You’re back,” Vincenzo said, voice low but

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