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The Year Before
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2026-09-17 03:05:00Vincenzo’s POV
Dawn was four hours away and the inherited debt was already awake. We moved Caroline into the reinforced back room of the civilian safe house under full restraint. The soft targets— Hannah, Maria, the remaining names we had pulled off the board were kept in the opposite wing under Luca’s men. Shadow stayed with Lenny, pressed against her leg like he could sense the new fracture opening under her feet. I stood across the small table from Caroline wi
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Vincenzo’s POV Dawn was four hours away and the inherited debt was already awake. We moved Caroline into the reinforced back room of the civilian safe house under full restraint. The soft targets— Hannah, Maria, the remaining names we had pulled off the board were kept in the opposite wing under Luca’s men. Shadow stayed with Lenny, pressed against her leg like he could sense the new fracture opening under her feet. I stood across the small table from Caroline with my good hand resting on the grip of my pistol. The shoulder wound had been repacked again; it still bled when I moved wrong. Lenny sat to my left, close enough that her knee touched mine. She had not let go of that contact since the tertiary lights died. Francesca had the frozen laptop and every remaining fragment of the shell-company architecture open on the table between us. Giovanni sat in the corner under guard, silent, watching the woman who had once bought a contract out
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