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CHAPTER 212
"You are using his name to climb." Ginevra's eyes glittered. "Everyone can see it. A little leech latched onto a man who is too soft to shake her off. Is that how it works? You cling long enough, and someone feeds you?"She wants a scene. Lyra did not blink. And she wants me to give her one."I have never needed your permission to stand beside anyone." Lyra's voice was calm and cold. "Not his. Not yours. Not anyone's.""Listen to her." Ginevra laughed, loud and sharp. "A girl who grew up in a rented room, talking like a queen. Where did you learn to speak, sweetheart? The back of a bus?""Better a bus than a throne built on someone else's back." Lyra tilted her head. "You sat on Dante's for years. It must be hard to walk on your own."Someone near the champagne tower choked back a laugh. Ginevra's cheeks flushed."You little nobody." She stepped forward. "You crawled out of the gutter and landed on a good man's shoes. Do not mistake his pity for love.""Lyra Varen?"The voice came fro
CHAPTER 211
The news reached Ginevra while she was sitting alone in her penthouse, staring at a guest list that did not have her name on it."Dante Moretti received a Tier One invitation." Her assistant read the message from her phone. "The black seal. Without even applying.""That is impossible." Ginevra's glass stopped halfway to her lips. Her fingers whitened around the stem."The whole city is talking about it, ma'am."He has everything. Ginevra set the glass down so hard it cracked. A seat at the most exclusive table in the city. And I am begging for crumbs.She told herself it was not jealousy. Dante was doing this on purpose. He was flaunting his new status like a peacock spreading its tail, just to make her regret leaving him."He wants me to watch." Her voice was ice. "Fine. Let him see me there."The next morning, Ginevra drove to the Ferretti estate. Bianca Ferretti received her in a sunroom full of orchids, wearing a silk robe that probably cost more than a car."Ginevra, darling." Bi
CHAPTER 210
"The auction keeps a log of every invitation. When it was issued. To whom. Through which channel." Dante turned his head. "Is the auction's representative present?"The woman in the black dress stepped out from the crowd. She carried the same velvet case. Her face showed nothing, like a statue carved from patience."I am here, Mr. Moretti.""Please verify the registration records for my invitation." Dante's tone did not shift. "And for the message this young man is displaying."Lorenzo's grin flickered. "That is not necessary. The message speaks for itself.""Then you will not mind." The representative took out a small tablet. Her fingers moved with calm precision. The hall waited in silence.Two minutes. Lyra watched Lorenzo's throat bob. That is how long he has before the floor opens under him."Mr. Morett
CHAPTER 209
Lorenzo De Luca could not swallow what happened in that hotel suite. By nightfall, he had made a plan that smelled worse than a clogged drain."Everyone needs to hear this." Lorenzo leaned across a restaurant table. His eyes glittered with poison. "The Moretti trash did not earn that black invitation. He crawled into someone's bed for it.""Whose bed?" A friend leaned in, hungry for gossip."One of the organizers. Take your pick." Lorenzo smirked. "A man with no money and no family has to pay with something."By morning, the rumor had crawled through half the wealthy families in the city. A popular entertainment blogger named Chloe Vance posted it before breakfast. The headline said everything Lorenzo wanted."The Moretti Heir Sold Himself For A Golden Seat."Dante read it on his phone while Lyra drove. His face did not change."You are not angry." Lyra glanced at him."Anger is a luxury for people with free time." Dante scrolled past a comment calling him a gold digger. "Where are we
CHAPTER 208
"I said clean it up." Lorenzo stepped closer. His cologne smelled like money spent to cover insecurity. "Or are your ears as broken as your family's reputation?""My ears work fine." Dante met his eyes. "I just do not take orders from men whose biggest achievement is being born into the right family."Lorenzo's face flushed. His friends went quiet."You arrogant little insect." Lorenzo's voice dropped. "Do you know who my father is? Do you know what the De Luca family can do to a nobody like you?""I know exactly who your father is." Dante's voice was the calm surface of a lake that hid something enormous beneath the water. "A man who inherited everything he has and earned nothing on his own. Just like you."Before Lorenzo could respond, the suite door opened. A tall man with silver hair and a suit that screamed old money walked in. Lorenzo's posture changed instantl
CHAPTER 207
Three days after the underground settlement nearly buried them all, Dante returned to the surface world. The city moved around him like nothing had changed. Traffic. Noise. People rushing to jobs they hated for money they would spend on things they did not need.His phone buzzed with a message from Vittorio."Have you seen the invitations?" Vittorio's voice carried the excitement of a man who smelled opportunity the way sharks smell blood. "The Golden Auction is happening next month. Every major family in the country is fighting for a seat.""I have been underground for three days fighting ancient gods." Dante leaned against the car. "Auctions are not exactly on my mind.""They should be." Vittorio's tone shifted to business. "This is not some charity gala where rich people drink champagne and pretend to care about orphans. The Golden Auction brings together billionaire businessmen, famous entertainers, political figures, and influential heirs. Some of them secretly possess supernatur
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