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Ch. 33 – Sparks and Shadows
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2025-12-12 04:20:04
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Enemies At The Altar Chapter 102
The lockdown started that night.Mia discovered it when she tried to leave her room.A guard stood outside the door.Not unusual.The second guard standing at the end of the hallway was.The third one by the staircase definitely was.Mia stopped.The guards immediately straightened."Good evening, ma'am."She narrowed her eyes."Why are there three of you?"None of them answered.That was enough to answer.Mia sighed."Where's Mark?""Meeting."Of course."How long?""We don't know."She hated that answer.Mostly because it was probably true.Mia started toward the staircase.The nearest guard stepped forward.Politely.Firmly.Blocking the way.She stared at him.He stared at the floor.Smart man."Move."Silence."Mia."She closed her eyes.That voice.That voice always appeared right when she was about to win an argument.Or start one.Mark walked down the hall toward her.Jacket off.Sleeves rolled up.The look on his face already told her she wasn't going to like this conversatio
Enemies At The Altar Chapter 101
The war began quietly.That was what made it terrifying.Not with explosions.Not with bodies in the streets.Not with gunfire.Those things were obvious.This enemy preferred something worse.Doubt.Three days after the dinner attack, the first reports arrived.Mia was eating breakfast when Luca entered the dining room without knocking.Again.At this point, she suspected he enjoyed it."Bad news?" she asked.Luca didn't even glance at her.I definitely enjoyed it."Warehouse Twelve."Mark looked up from his coffee."What about it?""Shipment never arrived."Mark set his cup down.The small sound echoed through the room."What do you mean never arrived?""The trucks left.""And?""They vanished."Silence.Mia frowned."Vanished?"Luca nodded."Eight trucks.""That's impossible.""Apparently not."Mark stood immediately.The relaxed atmosphere disappeared.Just like that.The businessman was gone.The strategist remained."Drivers?""Missing.""GPS?""Disabled."Mark's expression hard
Enemies At The Altar Chapter 100
The lights cut out.For half a second, the entire ballroom froze.Then chaos erupted.A woman screamed.Someone knocked over a chair.Glass shattered somewhere to Mia's left.The soft music died abruptly, replaced by confusion and rising panic.Mia's pulse jumped.The stranger's final words echoed in her head."This is where it begins."Before she could react, a strong arm wrapped around her waist.Mark."Stay with me."His voice was calm.Too calm.The kind of calm that only appeared when things were about to get very bad.The darkness lasted barely three seconds.Three seconds was enough.The emergency lights flickered on.Red.Dim.Disturbing.The elegant ballroom now looked like a crime scene waiting to happen.Mark immediately pulled Mia behind him.His body became a shield.A wall.Around them, Romano guards were already moving.Hands near weapons.Eyes scanning every exit.Luca appeared out of nowhere."Perimeter breach?"Mark asked."Not confirmed.""Find out."Luca disappeare
Enemies At The Altar Chapter 99
The dinner was too perfect.Too polished.Too controlled.Crystal chandeliers cast soft light over a hall filled with expensive suits, quiet laughter, and conversations that never rose above elegance. Glasses clinked softly. Music flowed like silk through the air. A nice place for a perfect date, Everything looked safe.Which was exactly why Mia didn’t trust it.She stood beside Mark at the long table reserved for the inner circle—important allies, trusted names, people who smiled like they knew exactly where power sat in the room.Mark hadn’t let her out of his sight all evening.Not once.And she had stopped pretending to mind.Still—Something felt wrong.Not loud.Not obvious.Just… waiting.“Eat,” Mark said quietly beside her.“I am eating.”“You’re not.”“I’m thinking.”“That’s worse.”She shot him a look.“You’re in a good mood tonight.”“No am not.”“That sounds worse than my problem.”His hand brushed lightly against the edge of her chair—subtle, grounding.“You’re scanning t
Enemies At The Altar Chapter 98
It arrived at midday.Not through Mark.Not through Luca.Not through any of the usual channels that screamed danger before a word was even spoken.It came quietly.Too quietly.Mia found it on the small table near the balcony doors.A plain black envelope.No seal.No name.Just her.For a moment, she didn’t touch it.She stared, as if the envelope might move first.Don’t pick up anything you didn’t see delivered, Mark’s voice echoed faintly in her mind.But this hadn’t been delivered.It had been placed.Someone had been inside the space they thought was secure.That alone made her chest tighten.She picked it up.Light.Almost insulting in its simplicity.She turned it over.Nothing.No warning mark.No signature.Just a single handwritten line on the front:For Mia. Not the Don.Her fingers froze.That detail mattered.Too much.She opened it.Inside was a single card.No threat.No insult.No blood.Just words.You are not safe where you are standing.But you are also not owned t
Enemies At The Altar Chapter 97
The mansion felt heavier after the message.Not louder.Not more active.Just… heavier.As if the walls themselves sensed something had shifted outside.Mark had been gone since morning.Luca too.Mia stayed inside, just as she was told. But “staying inside” in this house still meant moving through rooms filled with guarded silence and unanswered phones.By midday, she found herself near the west corridor.Close enough to the study.Close enough to hear voices.She hadn’t meant to stop.But she did.Don Romano’s voice came first—low, steady, unmistakable.“You’re reacting too fast.”Mark answered immediately.“I’m reacting appropriately.”A pause.Then the Don again.“That depends on what you think this is.”Mia froze.She shouldn’t have been listening.But her feet didn’t move.Mark’s voice came again—colder this time.“I think it’s an intrusion.”“I think it’s a test,” Don Romano corrected.Silence.Then footsteps—slow, deliberate.The kind of pacing that meant calculation, not agit
Enemies At The Altar Ch. 39 – The Turn of the Heart
Mia didn’t go back to the infirmary that night.Not because she didn’t want to—but because she wanted to too much.She stayed in her room, pacing the length of it like a trapped thing, every step echoing with Mark’s voice in her head. Mia. The way he’d said her name—soft, bare, stripped of command
Enemies At The Altar Ch. 26 – The Dinner of Pretenses
The Romano dining hall was built to intimidate—long marble floors, chandeliers like frozen storms hanging overhead, and a massive table carved from centuries-old oak. Fifty chairs lined each side, each one ready for another powerful ally, another dangerous enemy dressed as a guest.Tonight, the tab
Enemies At The Altar Ch. 27 – The Silent War
The moment their bedroom hallway door clicked shut behind them, the mask Mark had worn all evening shattered.He didn’t wait.Didn’t give her space.Didn’t hide behind his usual stone-cold restraint.“Mia.”Her name was a low growl—raw, frayed, dangerous.She froze.Mark rarely raised his voice.He
Enemies At The Altar Ch. 46 – A Dance of Fire
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