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CHAPTER 111

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Seraphina Valtieri stood alone in the east corridor of the estate that evening, the marble floor beneath her heels cold and unyielding. The air around her is carrying the distant echo of voices gathering where she already knew she would be expected.

The elders were assembling upon Luca’s invitation.

She could hear them through the carved doors at the far end of the corridor. The voices are low, deliberate, controlled, threaded with something more dangerous than anger.

They are filled with antic
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