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CHAPTER 10

Author: Nancy Grey
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-03 20:06:12

Luca’s POV

My jaw tightened until I felt the muscle twitch. Lucious Morreno. Of course it was him. The name tasted bitter on my tongue, like poison I had swallowed too many times but never spat out. Slimy old bastard. I had kept him close for one reason only—because he had been an old friend of my father’s. A relic from a past I should have buried with my father himself. A snake who knew how to slither in the dark and hide in the cracks of my world. He was nothing more than a rotting shadow. Just like my father had been.

And then there was his daughter, Cecelia. Pretty face, painted lips, long legs. A quick tongue, soft body, and eyes that always tried to see more than they should. I used her when I wanted to burn away stress. Nothing more. Nothing less. She meant nothing to me, and she knew it. But her father… her father had crossed the line. He had made a mistake so big, it sealed his fate before I even spoke it out loud. The kind of mistake no one survived.

I let the silence sit he
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