Chapter 40 - Reign of the DragonTen years after that fateful night at Ristorante Bellagio, the world outside looked entirely different, but inside the Moretti estate, the warmth remained absolute.
Lukas was grown now, a young man stepping up to take his place in the family operations, mentored by his father and supported by an aunt he had grown to love like a sister.
Standing out on the grand marble balcony of our bedroom, wrapped in Dante’s arms under a brilliant canopy of stars, I looked out over the sparkling city lights below.
My mother’s voice had once warned me to run from men with dragons on their skin. But standing here now, feeling the steady, powerful heartbeat of the man who had claimed my heart, I knew the truth.
We didn't run from the dragons.
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We became them.
And no matter what shadows tried to creep in from the past, our empire would stand, unbroken and eternal, for all the years to come.
