Chapter 448 - CH 448 — Dinner With a Vampire

Night settled gracefully over Venice, wrapping the ancient city beneath a velvet sky where moonlight shimmered across the quiet canals and reflected against weathered marble bridges that had witnessed centuries of whispered promises, broken treaties, and fragile alliances, while the Palazzo Noctis rose above the water with austere elegance, its Gothic towers and carved balconies glowing beneath rows of crystal lanterns whose warm light softened the solemn grandeur of the ancestral residence without diminishing the quiet authority resting within its walls.