CHAPTER 311 ercole
Author: Emanuel muse
last update2024-10-31 23:05:04
CHAPTER 311

But they were all agreed on one thing, Ercole wasn’t just a man, he was an entity, a force that bent the world to his will.

The ballroom was buzzing with high-society tension, the kind of careful excitement that could only exist in a place where everyone was powerful, and yet everyone was still afraid of one man. Lord Ercole.

It had been over an hour since word got out that he was expected to appear personally. No one had ever seen him, not truly. There were rumors, photoshopped pictures, blurry silhouettes caught from a yacht or a private jet, but nothing confirmed. A god in the world of men. And in his mystery, he became legend.

So when a man at the bar loudly claimed, "I’ve met him," heads turned.

He was mid-forties, a bloated ego barely contained in a slim, cut navy suit. The kind of man who needed to be seen, even when the spotlight wasn’t his. He took a slow sip of his drink and leaned back on the bar like he was royalty, eyes sweeping across the gathering crowd.
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