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CHAPTER 12
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2025-11-29 13:59:15
wandering jediHello, dear readers! It's been a while since I wrote here on GN. :) Thank you so much for your support and I hope you will join the adventure of Althea and Dominic. The next few chapters are flashbacks, a look in the past of how Althea survived, thrived and became Miracle Hands. In between, the chapters will be in the present and then will have flashbacks again on how Dominic and Althea met for the first time. So I can able to connect the entire story and what led to everything. Thank you and please leave gem donations as well as your comments to make it sound better. I'll be really grateful!
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The old Valtieri Estate had always belonged to ghosts.Not the literal ones but to something much worse.Memories.Legacy.Power.The weight of the Valtieri generations lingered within every corridor, every staircase, every carved stone archway.Men had ruled empires from these halls and wars had been funded from these rooms.Governments influenced, dynasties being built and destroyed.For nearly three centuries, the ancestral seat of the Valtieri family had remained unchanged.It endured as it watched generations rise and fall, brothers becoming enemies, sons becoming fathers and watching ambition consume everything it touched.Tonight, the estate belonged to Matteo Valtieri.Finally. The thought brought a smile to his face.A small and dangerous smile.Satisfied.Long overdue.Matteo stood alone in the western gallery overlooking the main courtyard.Night had fallen hours ago and he looked at the ancient estate glowed beneath carefully positioned floodlights.Security personnel move
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