Chapter 18: The Truce Shatters
****Dante’s POV****
We were supposed to be untouchable now.
Duque’s compound reinforced. Luca locked away. Isabelle by my side again. Everything should’ve felt like stability was returning to the chaos.
But it didn’t.
There was a crack in the air. A shift. Like a blade behind the curtain.
And I felt it in my chest long before the first gunshot.
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We had gathered in the war room. Nico and Felix were combing through the last of Matteo’s notes. Isabelle stood across from me, arms crossed, eyes like obsidian glass.
She hadn’t mentioned the video I knew Nico gave her.
But something had changed in her. She was sharper. Quieter.
Focused.
“Victor’s men are repositioning near the southern gate,” Nico said. “Sporadic movement. Could be recon. Could be not
