ra

like mine. Dante's preference for Seraphina wasn't a secret, not really. It had b

rted a war with M Corp, a rival organization, because they'd backed out of a real estate deal t

ting the only pure thing I had left. I took the small box of ashes to the coast and scattered t

Luca's death, Dan

't apologize. He offered an excuse. "The medical resources...

ated, my voice dangerously calm. "You mean delivering Seraph

he sighed. "Luca was family

ce, light and musical. "Dante, dar

the decency to call

sed to let him fe

side were the divorce papers he'd thrown at me six months ago during a fight. *"If y

rm, a black slash s

the slums where Luca and I grew up, where I had saved Dante. I n

parked under a flickering streetlamp. Dante's Maybac

s the street, my body hidden by the shadows. Through the tinted win

at made my stomach clench. When they broke apart, she ope

" she whined, pul

out for him, and laid it over the filth for her to walk on. The same man who couldn't be bothered to

e?" Seraphina asked, stepping gracefully o

'm buying the whole block. I'm going to tear it a

e place I saved him. The place Luca call

. I stumbled back, my foot land

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hoed in the

, two heads snapp