Chapter 223

The explosion lit up the Tuscan hillside like a second sunrise.

Declan felt the blast before he heard it—a wall of heat and pressure slamming into the SUV from beneath, lifting the heavy vehicle off the road as if it weighed nothing. Metal screamed. Glass shattered inward like shrapnel rain. For one suspended second he was weightless, the world reduced to fire and the sickening crunch of steel fol