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Chapter Forty: Escape

Author: Lia Voss
last update publish date: 2026-06-01 18:31:43

Alessandro

The cigarette did not work.

I stood in my study with the smoke curling around my face and I waited for the familiar calm to settle over me, the cold clarity that usually came after a cigar. It always came. It had come after my father's death and after every kill and after every decision that had built my empire from nothing.

But tonight it did not come.

I kept seeing her sad face. The way she had flinched when I said the word property. The way her eyes had gone blank and resigned.

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