CHAPTER 77AMAYA

By the third day, the tension stopped pretending to be subtle.

It settled into everything.

The walls, the air, the way people moved just a little faster and spoke just a little quieter as if something was coming and no one wanted to be the one caught unprepared when it arrived.

We had broken the old system.

Now something else was rising to take its place.

Luciano felt it before any of us said it out loud.

And this time, he didn’t wait.

“I need all of you,” he said the moment he stepped into the room, his voice sharper than usual, urgency cutting through his usual control....