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CHAPTER 32

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CHAPTER 32

SALVATORE

I’m in the meeting when it hits me. I feel it under my skin. I feel her. It is not gradual. It is not subtle. It arrives with impact.

My chest tightens hard enough that my fingers are still on the edge of the table without permission. The air in the room shifts slightly. I’m very confused. Caroline and I are not tethered. Why am I feeling her?

My jaw tightens so hard it hurts. “No.”

This is not possible, not when she is across the city, contained, protected, isolated, where
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