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CHAPTER 64 - The Bank

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Eliza's POV

Zurich was cold.

The kind of cold that seeped through wool coats and settled in bones. I stood at the window of the hotel room, watching the city wake beneath a gray sky, and tried to remember the last time I'd felt warm.

Adam came up behind me. His arms wrapped around my waist.

"You've been standing there for an hour."

"I've been thinking."

"About?"

"About my mother. About what she would have done. If she'd lived
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