Chapter 7
The sudden alarm shattered the quiet sanctuary of the room like breaking glass. Red emergency lights flickered along the baseboards as the mansion's automated lockdown sirens began to hum softly.
Sophia gasped, scrambling into Hannah's arms. Hannah instantly pulled the three-year-old girl against her chest, wrapping her body protectively around the child on the velvet bed.
Luca stood up smoothly, his relaxed posture instantly vanishing as his muscular frame squared into that of a deadly, seasoned war captain. He reached into his waist holster, pulling out a sleek black custom sidearm, racking the slide with a fluid, practiced motion.
"Frank, where are they?" Luca barked, his voice ringing with absolute, terrifying authority.
"They brought thirty men, Boss," Frank reported quickly, monitoring an encrypted tactical tablet. "They used heavy explosives to disable our perimeter grid. They're advancing across the front lawn toward the main terrace!"
Luca turned his head toward Hannah, his piercing dark eyes locking onto hers with a fierce, protective intensity.
"Frank, take Hannah and Sophia down to the reinforced panic vault beneath the wine cellar," Luca ordered flatly. "Lock the steel doors from the inside. Do not open them for anyone except my voice."
"No, Luca!" Hannah pleaded, rising from the bed while holding Sophia tightly against her shoulder. "Come with us! The vault is impenetrable!"
"If I go into that vault, Sabato will surround this house and lay siege until the authorities arrive or his heavy ordnance breaches the roof," Luca said coldly, stepping closer to her. He reached out, gently touching the side of Hannah's face, his thumb brushing across her cheek. "I am going to finish this on the lawn. Sabato dies tonight."
"Luca..." Hannah whispered, tears welling in her eyes as she looked into the face of the man who had become her world's ultimate shield.
"Protect my daughter, Hannah," Luca commanded softly, his voice an unbreakable vow. "I will come back for both of you."
Sophia reached out her tiny hand from Hannah's shoulder, touching Luca's tattooed wrist. "Be careful, Daddy! Use your fairy power!"
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Luca offered his daughter a rare, fierce smile, kissing her small forehead before looking back at Hannah. "Go. Now!"
Frank escorted Hannah and Sophia quickly out of the master suite through a secret service elevator, leaving Luca alone in the corridor as his elite bodyguards assembled around him, weapons drawn, ready for war.
