[Alpha Lorenzo’s Point of View] I was already driving back toward Villa Lunare. My eyes stayed locked on the dark road ahead, but my thoughts were somewhere else entirely. Chiara. My children. My jaw tightened so hard it hurt. Leo was right. This situation was far worse than we originally thought, and every instinct inside me screamed that my family was in danger. I should never have left them alone while the territory was collapsing into chaos around us. The poisoned sentinels. The attacks in the eastern woods. The Black Claws moving like ghosts through my lands. Everything was connected somehow. And somehow, every trail led back to Chiara. Twenty minutes before reaching the villa, something immediately caught my attention. A black car. Parked outside an abandoned building near the old district of Valdieri. My eyes narrowed instantly. I recognized that car. Benedetto Ricciardi. What the hell was that old man doing here? The building itself used to be the old pub
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