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Chapter 48: Dante
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2026-03-05 09:30:11That was fucking close, I thought, having just showered and gotten dressed.
If I hadn't distracted Nero last night, would he have figured out something was up? Would he have made the connection between my leaving the mansion yesterday and the attack on his company? I didn't know, but I had engaged him anyway. It was a distraction, a risk I had to take. And he had taken every advantage of it. I hissed inwardly as I s
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I walked in on their conversation and it was just as I'd feared. The knot in my chest wound tighter when I saw how close they were, but I tried to not let it show. I wasn't going to contribute to the awkwardness, even though I wished I was brave enough to do so.“Are you staying for lunch?” I asked Avi, ignoring Nero’s gaze on me. Avi coughed lightly and pulled away from Nero’s, straightening.“Ah, I'm afraid I have a date to meet up with, Dante. Next time perhaps?” He said in a rush, eyes flashing with something I recognized oddly as guilt.Before I could say anything else, he rose to his feet and rushed past me, heading to the front door. I gaped at the sight of him fleeing, wondering if I had done anything wrong.“Let him be,” Nero had gotten up and was closer without my noticing. He reached for me and I unconsciously stepped back. That weight in my heart did not release, and I was unsure of why but I couldn't stand looking
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“You were too harsh.” Avi spoke immediately after Dante left. I glared at him.“Avi.” I warned, my tone hard.“I’m serious. Don’t look at me like that, Nero. I know you far too much to get intimidated like that,” He said but still took two steps back in quick succession. “What, have you lost interest in him already? You didn't look like it last time.”He was intent on provoking me.“You have information.” I said, changing the subject. Turning away, I walked towards the living room, expecting him to follow.About five minutes later, I sat across from him on the sofa, regarding him with a raised brow“Is this all?” I asked after hearing him speak. Avi leaned back chuckling lightly.“Nero, you know this business far more than I do. Like I said, word is slowly getting out that Angelo has lost the family’s approval. The details of the meeting, neither I nor the others know, but these things cannot be evaded. The dam is breaking.”I fell silent, pondering.The capones under the Vecchio fami
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I knew something had happened in the Vecchio family estate. It wasn't simply because of the fact that the meeting had lasted nearly three hours, but the aftermath.And now…I was even more anxious.Nero had not left the house in three days.I stared at the door of his study, pondering silently on the merits of walking in and demanding answers.Angelo had gone silent as well. The burner phone sat in its hiding place, untouched.It felt like something was changing in the city.For me, this was nerve wracking because I didn't even know what to prepare for. It wasn't until this afternoon in Nero's home that I received a familiar visitor.“Why hello there, beautiful.” Avi winked and waved at me as soon as he traipsed into the foyer. I paused, raising my head and blinking curiously at him. “What?” “You have never been this enthusiastic about meeting me before. I’m processing,” I replied in a deadpan tone.
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My jaw clenched. Suddenly I wished I didn't, out of our family bond, escort him to his car anymore.Would have saved me the trouble.“There is nothing to explain.” I said stonily, “He is a bodyguard.”“Ah, a bodyguard,” Daniel tilted his head. “He looks a lot better than that one kid who you used to spar with.”“Avi and I never sparred, Daniel.”“Horizontally, I mean. You two did make a lot of noise back then.”My jaw twitched but I forcefully tamped down on the rising embarrassment. Shame was for those that cared.“Dante is not like that.”“But you’re fucking him,” Daniel inferred. “Don’t deny it. You look at him like you own him.”“I look like that to everyone.”“Not to everyone. Not to Avi. And certainly not to others.” He hummed his amusement showing more by the second, “It is quite the surprise. Usually, you like finding new toys to play with, Nero and you discard them just as quickly.”My insides tensed at the thought, flashing back to Dante's pale unconscious frame. Discarding
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No one spoke and I turned to Antonio from where I stood, who sat still beside grandfather. I didn't need to speak, he could tell by my expression that I had something to say. A flicker of approval passed through his eyes, then he nodded once, sharply enough that many others noticed.Beside me, Daniel coughed lightly once.“I speak now as a Vecchio to the Council today, not because I find this amusing, but because our family deserves dignity preserved.” I began, speaking fully in Italian, “We are aware of family law. The family must come before the individual. And Angelo Vecchio broke that the moment he accused the former Don Alphonse Vecchio in order to unseat him from a position of power. His motives were impure. It must be judged. That is why I must agree with one thing, Angelo cannot be judged as an outsider, and neither can Eliza Marta. Before he died, my dear uncle Mattia gave Angelo the last name Vecchio. Regardless of their crimes, they may not be judged otherwise.”A beat pas
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This was, without a doubt, a humiliation ritual for Angelo. To find out that you were a bastard child was one thing. But to not even be a true Vecchio, was in essence, a destruction of all the supposed family ties in front of everyone that mattered. I looked around, knowing that even though the code of silence for the family remained, the consequences would almost certainly make its rounds around the Vecchio enterprises. The alliance of all the family members to Angelo was tenuous at best. But now, everything was different. Out of the other unspoken rules that could be bent, the one that could never be was that of verifiable bloodline. Only a trueblooded Vecchio could be Don. The truth was out, Angelo should never have been a Vecchio in the first place, much less Don. And that was his own ruin. “In accordance with the family code, I have finished my defence,” Grandfather finally bowed. Not a long or deep bow, but one that displayed his equal status and unwavering respect
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