Chapter 21: Gunfire & Roses
****Dante’s POV****
War changes a man.
But love—that ruins him.
I stood in the ancient stone courtyard of the monastery turned stronghold, boots planted, gun holstered, and blood still drying beneath the bandage that ran across my ribs. The sun hadn’t risen yet. Fog clung to the earth like a desperate ghost.
The kind of morning where only killers walk the road.
And today, I was hunting.
Duque briefed us in low, grim tones. Victor’s second-in-command—Arkadi Voss—had resurfaced. Not just as a loose end, but as a threat.
He’d taken over the remnants of Raze’s eastern operation, assumed control of the human intel network, and last week, bombed one of our satellite safehouses in Brussels.
But more than that—he had intel on the Regenesis Protocol.
Intel we n
