The dawn rose blood-red, a sky painted with streaks of fire that mirrored the world Dante and Amara had built—glorious, terrible, and perilously fragile.Inside the grand villa that now served as their seat of power, silence lay heavy. The chandeliers glimmered faintly, catching the remnants of last night’s council meeting—empty glasses, half-burnt cigars, and papers scrawled with strategies. But where once those meetings were orchestrated with precision, now they ended in arguments, whispers, and the clear shadow of dissent.Dante stood by the window, his silhouette tall, tense, and outlined by the first rays of morning. His fists rested on the sill, knuckles white. He had taken everything—Lorenzo’s empire, his lands, his men, his crown of fear—and yet he felt the ground crumbling beneath him.Behind him, Amara entered quietly, her movements graceful yet edged with authority that was no longer only borrowed from Dante but carved from her own conquests. She wore a black silk robe, he
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