now worked tirelessly to bury the bloodstains on the cobbles

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e securely

use my legs refuse

injury; it was a living, parasitic thing,

ren't lea

ike a sentine

nd I could feel the eyes of snipers perc

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untered, his grip on me tightening. "They will see her ha

ebt," Dante

a coin fro

he Vitiello crest on one face and

tion. A life debt owed b

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Dante

ia, who was clinging

ofia. You cannot touch her. Not today. Not

my throat, ho

trying t

currency in our world to ensure I

r

safety with the curr

ting of ash. "The debt is paid.

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is useless to

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fall against

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" Luca urged, sensing t

sped. "The broke

Dante called

ine," I

men sprinted

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the trunk of t

t Dante on

able. The Ice Prince reigni

, he look

hough the wind snatched my voice

back on me to

ach acid splattering onto the

a shouted, his voice dist

dissolved

kness, the steady hum of jet

IV, the clear fluid

as heavil

me, his eyes s

sked, my v

ooked

ld a profou

body, Gianna. The la

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erhaps he didn't want me to know he had

dn't

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the Hamptons. T

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t my bandaged hand

sn't

or of a war I never