Chapter 146

• Chapter 146: Mirror of Temptation
• The meeting is over, but the air between them still simmers, heat curling like smoke in the back of their minds. The tension doesn’t dissipate—it thickens, clinging to the walls, to their skin. Luca doesn’t even wait to officially dismiss the rest of his men. He stands, sharp movements betraying the restraint in his body, while they all watch with unspoken questions trapped behind tight lips.
• They’ve known their boss for years—long enough to have seen his fury, his precision, his cold detachment in a thousand scenarios—but never this. Never the faint, almost imperceptible tremble in his composure. Never this restless energy bleeding off him like heat from a furnace.