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CHAPTER 107

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Luca Valtieri did not react.

Reaction was for men who had already lost ground.

He stood alone in the upper study, the same room where three generations of Valtieri decisions had been made without witnesses, without records, without mercy. The afternoon light slanted through the tall windows, illuminating dust motes that drifted like time itself that is slow, indifferent, eternal.

The walls were lined with portraits of Valtieri men.

Fathers. Uncles. Cousins.

Men who had built empires with nothin
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