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Chapter Thirty — Matteo

Autor: Char Writes
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-22 17:44:29

The information on Matteo Romano arrived at noon.

Ricci placed a thin folder on the study table with the careful manner of a man who understood that the contents were going to change the direction of the conversation.

She opened it.

Matteo Romano. Twenty four years old. Third year architecture student at the University of Bologna. Clean record. No known associations with anything connected to his father's world. An Instagram account full of buildings and coffee and the occasional photograph of
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