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Chapter 9: Dinner with the Devil

Author: Annie
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A knock rattled the door. It was sharp and impatient. My chest tightened.

“Come in!” I said with the little strength I had left in me.

“Dinner!” a gruff voice barked from the other side, not bothering to answer or to come in like I asked.

I froze. The thought of walking into a dining hall where Valerio Moretti might be waiting made my stomach twist. But I couldn’t stay locked in here forever. If I was going to make him notice me, I had to start now.

I glanced at the mirror again. My lips were still cracked, my eyes rimmed red from crying, but underneath the ruin, I could still see her. The girl my father said looked like my mother. The girl who could make men stop in their tracks.

I touched the cold glass. “You’re still in there,” I whispered. “Now use it.”

I straightened my back, brushed down the dress that still smelled faintly of auction rooms and fear, and opened the door.

Two guards waited outside. They didn’t look at me, not really. Their eyes were fixed forward, their guns slun
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