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Chapter Seventy Six

Author: Sammy
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Luca

It took me fifteen minutes to sit alone in silence and measure the cost of what I was about to do.

I’d always known there’d be a day when I crossed the line and didn’t come back.

I just never thought it would come wearing Lila’s grief like a noose around my neck.

She hadn’t even cried when I called her after the hospital.

Her voice had gone distant. Flat.

Like something had shattered inside her and all that was left was the echo.

That silence?

That was louder than any scream.

I wheeled myself into the study and shut the door behind me. No one needed to witness this call. Not Alex. Not Lila. Not even my security team.

This wasn’t strategy.

This was retribution.

I opened the drawer where I kept the numbers only used when there was no more diplomacy left to pretend.

Five digits in black ink, etched into a strip of paper.

The number didn’t belong to a consigliere. Or a business partner.

It belonged to a ghost.

One of the last men in Europe who still owed me blood.

I punched in the dig
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