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Chapter Ninety-Two - Quiet Between Flames

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(Apollo & Adelaide)

The steam curled around them like breath.

It rose in slow, ghostlike ribbons, catching the amber bathhouse light and turning it to drifting gold. Each coil carried the mineral bite of heated stone and something faintly sweet, like scorched herbs dissolving into warmth.

Adelaide floated in the cradle of Apollo’s arms, the heat of the bathhouse soaking into her bones until she felt almost boneless. The water glowed faint gold from the Hellfire veins beneath the stone floo
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