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Chapter 40 — Fever and Steel

Author: J. Cross
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-08-08 23:30:06

Seb

THE ICY rain beat against the heavy glass walls without mercy.

I stood in my private study, my back rigid, staring through the floor-to-ceiling glass at the narrow exterior ledge twelve stories above the concrete street.

Out there, soaked to the skin in a thin cotton dress, was Bela.

She clung to the frozen stone with one hand, a heavy bristle brush in the other, scrubbing at the rain-streaked glass. Her body shuddered with violent tremors.

Matteo stood on the interior side of the glass, hi
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