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Chapter 71: Blood on Marble.

POV: Serena

Dawn smeared Rome in gray and smoke. I stood on the villa’s balcony, palms gripping the iron railing hard enough to leave dents in my skin. Below, the streets of Trastevere stirred with half-whispers, shutters cracking open, and women calling children inside as if sunlight itself had...