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Chapter 17

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ARIA POV

I don’t sleep.

The house is too big and too quiet. And my brain won’t shut up.

At 2:13am I give up and pad down to the kitchen. Socks, hoodie, hair in a knot. I just want water.

The lights are low. Someone’s already there.

Dante.

He’s at the stove in sweatpants and a black tee, stirring something in a pot.

“You’re up,” he says without looking.

“Can’t sleep,” I say. “You?”

“Same.”

He gestures to the stool at the island. “Sit.”

I do. The kitchen smells like garlic and butter and somethin
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