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sharks, political rivals, and men who would kill over a single

eep in power that their wealth couldn't be

na had been

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ate, Marcelle, met him at the door, her

dered. Make sure he's comfortabl

xpression unreadable, but Dante s

d for the first time,

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is study, his mind a battlefield of questions. He poured himself a drink, let

n Seraphina Rouss

because Seraphina had spent years erasing herself from history but money had its

nning through the life sh

mother who was never suppos

tienne Rousseau, the family's

e shadows, not to be acknow

watchful eye of her father and half-siblings. Especially A

ghtened around the

en, Serap

ant to strengthen the Rousseau empire but she had refused, esc

rom the chains of her lineage. She had changed

eyes, the way she never spoke about her past now he

she built, and they had taken her chi

sharply, his

ind this, he would tear t

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grabbed his phone, dial

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s a paus

where it get

es darkene

deal with a known human trafficker. Money was exchanged,

he phone nearly c

ri

a's own half-broth

placed him in a black-market auc

? Power? Or simpl

k in his chair,

dn't

made a fa

e Insid

d, and Marcelle step

d, he found the boy curled up in the massive bed, looking even small

papa? Leo a

Dante like a

placing a careful hand on

ing the words in his mi

jaw cl

. No one will ever t

the first time, he reached out, his sma

ack., a silent p

eo said something that made

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ntire bod

? His voice was

o remember. I heard them say she broke th

e room turned

punish Seraphina he

ned with a new,

just a ch

a child

hought he could

at kind of war he