Chapter 14: The Fingerprint Code
****Dante’s POV****
The rain hadn’t let up. It was the kind that soaked into your bones and turned thoughts to steel. Every drop on the windshield felt like a clock ticking down, and we were running out of time.
The boat cut through dark waters like a blade. The engines were muffled, modified for stealth, and Nico handled the wheel like he’d been born with salt in his veins. I stood at the bow with Isabelle, the wind slapping against my face, the cold biting at the exposed scar on my jaw.
But I didn’t care about the cold.
Not when we were about to meet the ghost who helped build everything that had ruined us.
Elias Vega.
The name alone felt like a curse now. A name buried in the bones of my past, somehow threaded through my mother’s secrets, Victor’s
