Chapter 24: Father of Lies
****Dante’s POV****
You think you know what betrayal feels like.
Until the man you've hated for years—the monster who burned your family, experimented on children, and orchestrated chaos across nations—tells you something that makes you question your own blood.
I always thought the worst Victor Raze could do to me was take lives. Torture allies. Manipulate enemies. But this? This was worse.
This… was personal.
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It began with a whisper from Nico.
“Intercepted transmission from Zurich. You’ll want to hear it.”
He handed me an encrypted comms drive. I locked myself in the armory and pressed play.
Static.
Then Victor’s voice, unmistakable, clipped and deliberate.
“She doesn’t know. She still believes I’m her brother. But that story was a mask—an old co
