“So it was your family.”Aruna’s voice was calm, but calmness that felt dangerous.The room was silent. Too silent.Dante stood in front of her, his expression unreadable, his posture rigid. Marco remained a few steps away, as if he knew this was not a conversation he should interrupt.“You lied to me,” Aruna said.Dante did not deny it.“I told you what I knew at that time,” he replied.Aruna let out a slow breath. “You knew enough to suspect. You knew enough to stay close to me.”“Yes.”Her lips trembled, but she did not cry.Not anymore.“So my life,” she continued, “my debt, my job at the bar, my humiliation, all of it happened because your family needed leverage?”Dante’s eyes darkened.“It’s not that simple,” he said.“Then make it simple,” Aruna replied. “Explain it to me like I’m not your strategy.”Dante looked at her for a long moment.Then he spoke.“My family is not united,” he said. “Ravelino is not one empire. It is many factions fighting each other.”Marco nodded slight
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