BOUND TO THE BLOOD KING
Matteo Romano stood behind a desk carved like an altar, a rare bottle of Barolo already uncorked.
He poured two glasses without asking. “To contracts sealed in blood,” he murmured, raising his.
Bianca accepted hers, though her hand trembled. The wine burned rich, sweet, and heavy on her tongue like temptation, like poison.
For the first time, he spoke of himself not as Il Re di Ferro, but as a boy who learned early that mercy was weakness. He revealed fragments, carefully chosen, like daggers disguised as confessions. Yet every detail bound her tighter to his world.
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