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Chapter Thirty-Two

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Cristina de León bled in silence.

They strapped her to a steel chair in the basement beneath the Varela villa — the same ine Isabel used to use for interrogations.

Amara sat across from her. Calm. Dressed in a silk-blqck blouse and high-waisted slacks, not a hair out of place. The storm raged outside, but in this room, nothing moved unless Amara said it could.

Luca leaned against the far wall, arms crossed, eyes burning into Cristina with the kind of focus that said one word would end her.

Cristina, however, wasn't afraid.

She looked at Amara like she was still ten years old.

“I used to hold you,”she said with a thin smile. “You were always too quiet. Too still. Even then, you were already a Varela.”

Amara’s voice was frost. “You don't get to use that name.”

“I was loyal to your mother.”

“Tou sold her to the Serpent Syndicate.”

Cristina’s gave didn't waver. “No. I hid her from them. You think she vanished without a plan? She knew it was coming. The moment Dante tried to bind you to
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  • Kingdom of Ash and Blood    Chapter Thirty-Two

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