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CHAPTER 77

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Dominic had learned when he’s still young to immediately recognize when silence stopped being neutral. He was taught that it will never come in an announcement and will never be loud.

It came as a shift with too many doors opening easily, too many messages arriving late, too many people suddenly careful with their words.

This morning, the silence was sharp.

Standing alone in his study, his jacket discarded while his phone is pressed to his ear and eyes fixed on the rain sliding down the tall gla
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Hello, Dear Readers! It would mean a lot if you can give this novel a good rating :) as well as your gem donations. let's see the journey of Althea and Dominic unfold as the pressure of the Valtieri elders are closing in on them. What do you think Althea and Dominic will do to protect Nicholas?

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    Life continued to move forward as it always should.Seraphina eventually listened to the two people who loved her most.Dominic and Althea."You've spent your whole life saving everyone else, Mama. And sacrificing your own happiness." Althea had told her. She hugged Seraphina lovingly. "It's time someone makes you happy."Months later, Seraphina finally reunited with Esteban.The young man she had loved long before duty separated them. This time, neither family expectations nor old loyalties stood in their way.Dominic personally transferred ownership of the beautiful Valmont Estate to them."You deserve your own beginning, Mama." He informed when he gave her the deed and saw the surprised look on her face. “Besides, you and Esteban had a lot of things to catch up. I’m sure he wants that.”Seraphina accepted and Valmont quickly became famous for hosting family gatherings that somehow always ended with Dominic losing spectacularly at board games to Esteban.He maintained the games were

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    The silence beyond the Hall of Keepers was unlike anything Dominic had ever experienced.It wasn't merely the absence of sound, as if the walls are listening.No distant echoes.Only stillness.The ancient stone door at the end of the Hall stood nearly four meters high, carved from a single slab of obsidian-black granite veined with silver that shimmered beneath the lantern light.Unlike every passage before it, there were no handles, hinges and locks. The way it looked from their point of view, nothing suggested that it could even be opened.Lorenzo stopped several paces away."This..." He said quietly. “Is where my duty ends."Dominic frowned."What do you mean?" He asked.The old Keeper smiled sadly. "Dominic, for forty years I have guarded this Hall." He started to explained gently. "I have walked every step you have walked. I have read every name and preserved every record."He looked toward the immense stone door."But no Keeper has ever crossed beyond this threshold." He finall

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    The chamber remained silent.Lorenzo stood before the Seat with both hands resting lightly upon its weathered stone.Then, for the first time, he began to talk but not with the Seat.But with a name."The Valtieri family." He started calmly. “They did not create the Seat."Dominic frowned."What?" He questioned in surprised."It is older than your family, Dominic." Lorenzo explained. "Much older."Lorenzo turned toward the ancient wall behind the dais. Hidden within the stone were faded carvings no one had noticed before.Maps.Stars.Ancient symbols.Languages long forgotten."The first Valtieri was never a king." Lorenzo continued quietly. "He was never a ruler. He was chosen.”Althea looked closely at the carvings."They're not European." She commented quietly."No." Lorenzo answered. "They predate modern Europe."Althea looked at the symbols and a memory from when she was a child surfaced. It was of Benjamin, where he had once taught her to recognize civilizations through stonewo

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    Nicholas knew something was wrong because everyone was quiet.It wasn’t the good quiet that is like when his Mama will read him stories and the house smelled like clean sheets and warm milk. This one is quiet and fells tight. It’s like when he held his breath underwater for too long and his chest w

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    Althea acutely felt the bunker humming in restrained violence.It wasn’t in the weapons or the screens or the men standing guard. It was in the space between Dominic and Michael, where every glance carried the weight of unfinished wars.She stood near the central table, arms folded tightly against

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