The two decades-old promise

Author's note: this is from Aldus's point of view

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Sergio collected himself and he looked at me gloomily, finally resembling a werewolf instead of a deer caught in the headlights.

"Aldus Mezzanotte. What are your intentions?"

He didn't try to deny that Drago is Mateo.

I noticed his hostility, yet I couldn't make myself care about it.

I was adapting to the revelation that Serina's Duke, aka Drago Orsini, is Mateo Testa.

Since the Soul Echo in Paris, I created numerous theories about his background, yet it never occurred to me that he is the son of the Supreme Alpha, the little boy who was in my lab about twenty years ago.

It was the first time in this century that I was speechless.

From Serina's first dream, I wanted to know Drago's background and now that I knew, I was not sure what to do with this information.