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last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-09-30 10:19:31

_Luca’s POV_

Amelie crumpled before I even understood what was happening.

One moment she was on her feet, pale and shaking, muttering something about finding a bathroom. The next, her knees buckled. She swayed like a brittle branch in a storm.

“Amelie!” The word ripped out of me before I could stop it.

Her body went limp, tipping forward. My chest seized. Instinct roared through me. I lunged, catching her before her head could smack against the cracked cement floor. My arms closed around her narrow frame, and the shock of her weight—or rather, the lack of it—struck me harder than the gunfire had hours earlier.

She was feather-light. Hollow.

I don't know what we had been expecting after we had just rescued her.

But the sight of Nico being shot had taken out focus away from that.

I felt stupid and bad.

Her head lolled against my shoulder, her face slack, lashes damp against her cheeks. For one terrible heartbeat, I thought she was gone.

“No, no—” My voice was ragged. My hands shook a
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