Chapter 134 A Strategic Assessment

• On the other end of the line, Seraphina didn’t answer right away, as though she were absorbing his words—words that sounded less like a strategic assessment and more like a quiet acceptance of death itself.
• “It sounds more like a farewell than a strategy, and that doesn’t suit you,” Seraphina remarked, her voice slightly muffled, as if she were trying to hide the discomfort his words stirred in her.
• “No one outruns death, Seraphina,” Vincenzo said, his tone firm and emotionless. “I don’t plan for it, but it would be naive to ignore that, in our world, death is always someone’s ambition.” He paused, fully aware that such ambition had always been aimed squarely at him. “So, if death is inevitable, I’ll at least make sure it doesn’t serve those waiting to profit from it.”