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CHAPTER 62

last update Date de publication: 2026-01-05 14:11:53

Dominic was twelve when he learned that walls could whisper.

He did not know it then unlike the way adults knew it. It was not fear that had sharpened into instinct.

But something in him had stirred that night, making him unsettled and alert, like an animal sensing weather long before the clouds arrived.

The Valtieri estate slept in layers.

The outer gates first followed by the corridors.

Then silence so thick it felt deliberate.

Dominic lay awake in his bed, staring at the carved ceiling, list
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