#Chapter 100: Before The Fire

Dominic POV The suite was quiet when Dominic and the twins returned. Dominic’s boots made a dull thud against the hardwood as he stepped inside, Marco and Luca following closely behind. The faint glow of a desk lamp in the living room drew his eye first when he approached it, followed by the soft murmur of voices. The sight before him stopped him in his tracks immediately. Aurora sat at the coffee table beside Romero, her hair pulled up hastily into a loose knot, her sleeves shoved to her elbows. They were both bent over a set of blueprints spread out across the table, their fingers tracing lines and marking specific points of Alek’s mansion with red and black pens. She was speaking in that quiet, steady tone he remembered from before everything went to shit, a calm but deliberate tone as she pointed to one corner of the blueprint. “There’s a side entrance here. The guards rarely rotate past it at night because Alek prefers to keep his drivers stationed near the front gat