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Chapter 39

Aвтор: Leah Al
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*Bianca’s POV*

The room inhaled.

Vincenzo’s hand stilled around his coffee cup. Paolo’s stoic face registered the faintest hitch of surprise. Gio’s smile vanished before it could form; even Mario, who rarely showed anything but appetite for mischief, sat straighter. Erico — Alessandro, to the ghost that still lived in her mouth — shifted in place like a coiled wire.

I kept my finger in place, as if the map were an animal and I was calming it. The line was clean because it had to be. On paper the route moved antiques and textiles. At midnight it carried crates with no manifest and a blue tarp over a ledger. I pictured Luca Ferrante — his crooked nose, the soot still under his nails from when he’d once carried an antique lamp into my father’s office with a too-easy smile — and the room watched me as if I’d lit a fuse.

“Luca Ferrante,” I added before I could stop herself. Saying his name felt like dropping a stone into a well: the ripples would reach everywhere. “Antiques dealer in Paler
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