Shadows of the Night
Stained
trained her breath, and she remembered this was a trap. Beyond the large oak entrance of the Moretti m
aged to mar
announced, and once when their fathers had finalized the contract over whiskey and money stained with bloo
an an hour, he
the door. S
cultivating her face i
no stood in the doorway. His dark hair was rumpled,
breathed. "
no was the softer one, the one with a glimmer of hope inside hi
this," she
inside the room, closing the door betw
snapped u
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at constricted.
i name. N
't she w
his hand.
l in th
ests and guards at each turn. This evening, the house was a
ached the door of the servants' exit
m was
most foul so
training for air. A dark s
ina sc
ss. A man dressed in black, a sm
cond-in-command
ou could escape, Prin
phina. Matteo was a loyal
to react before she
ough the air. Matteo never had time to react to wh
gle. A lurch
the floor, c
un!" he
verything. "I'm not
ist was weak, desperate. "If you
door cras
eps. V
forehead of her broth
with th
mobile. The mercenary-for-hire driver hadn't even shift
ucked as gl
mn it!" sh
ipped through the rear street
ead against the glass. Luc
nothing.
sn't o
he pulled out her phone.
di
ugh. A voice-smoot
of nerve calling
breath. "Enzo.
use.
liste
t in
le to the Moretti estate. Cold. Less
is green eyes never leaving Serap
he whispered. "And
her shoulders. "I
led into a d
ered. "Then wha
breath. "An
s snapped
. "He attempted to kill me. I owe no
t him. Stead
arry you-on o
d his head.
hina
nt re
ealed i
silence be
he desk. He stopped before her, close
you need me?"
want to murder my father as much as I do.
her jaw, sending a
ying with f
born
anything for a
smi
id. "We'll do
sk drawer and pulled o
de-a
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brushed
long to