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CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE CARMELA'S POV The note was still in my jacket pocket when I sat down across from Gabriele the next morning. I was aware of it the entire time — a small, folded weight that shouldn't have meant anything and meant everything. I'd read it maybe thirty times since last night and each time Elena's handwriting did the same thing to me, pulled the floor out just slightly, enough to make everything else feel temporary and uncertain. I kept my face exactly where it needed to be.

“Send a message. Quietly. Make sure it looks like Dante’s men left the trail.” “And the body?” “Burn it. Then drop the ashes in Nico’s fountain.” Renzo bowed. “And the note?” Catalina reached for the lipstick. Pressed it to her mouth. Blotted it on black parchment. No name needed now. Just the mark. “They’ll understand.”

Cassius added. “And rich,” Marco finished. “Because this kind of operation isn’t cheap.” They went through the notebooks one by one, flipping pages filled with notes, times, vehicle plate numbers, delivery schedules, guard rotations, even weather notes on certain days. Whoever had been writing in these notebooks had been very careful, very detailed, and very interested in Stefano’s operations. Cassius stopped flipping pages suddenly and frowned slightly. “Here.” Stefano and Marco moved closer. Cassius turned the notebook toward them and pointed to a page with a list of dates.

She’d followed the trail from the streets to this sick, poetic heart. Elena pulled out a thin, high-resolution camera and began documenting everything the equipment, the logos on chemical drums, the meticulous ledgers left open on a desk, detailing distributions and payments. She photographed the rose seedlings, their dark petals looking bruised in the flashlight beam. This was the proof. This would bring down Salvatore and avenge Sofia. A loose leaf of paper, tucked under a ledger, caught her eye. It wasn’t a shipment manifest. It was a handwritten note in elegant, old-world script.

It's a note from Thane. ***

He, awake, watched. Pedro hadn't slept. Instead, he had spent the night memorizing every detail of her: the firm breasts, the nipples darkened by the heat of his tongue, the soft belly, the faint scar beneath her left rib, the way her legs fit with his like the pages of a well-bound book. And then, he saw it. On the side table, the black notebook she used. Open. The last pages hastily scribbled. Pedro stretched his arm, carefully picked it up, and read.

****** Far away, under the veil of the same storm, Lorenzo stood before a mirror in his dimly lit chamber, staring at the faint reflection of his own face—half in shadow, half in firelight. His expression was unreadable, but in his eyes burned the glint of someone who knew far more than he let on. On the table beside him lay an open notebook—filled with coded writing, strange symbols, and sketches of the same pendant Luca had given Alessia.... And the one that now lay in Seraphina's trembling hand. A smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth. "So the curse has finally reached her". He murmured. "And soon, if will reach them all".

The numbers weren’t good by the look of it. Big Elky didn’t flinch. He had a talent for insulting fear by not acknowledging its bad manners. He kept his hands on the chair back, humongous knuckles hairy and pale. Somewhere, the chandelier pinged once, a crystal cooling down, advising people to follow the example. The portraits kept watching Prospero tilted his head, very slightly, the way a hawk does when it’s bored with too blue sky. “One cannot carry the family and the fire at the same time. We will not permit a contagion in a wedding dress.”

For a brief moment, she thought of Henry—an ephemeral thought that vanished as soon as her lips uttered the first words of the book, capturing Frederick's attention. "In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life, whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love and the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children's end, nought could remove, i