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chapter 479

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POV: Isabella

"There are still names in that book we have not even begun to look for, and I am afraid of what it will cost us to find every single one of them." I said it to Matteo alone that evening, the great hall finally empty, Salvatore's judgment already settling into the quiet exhaustion that follows every hard mercy a family has to hand down to its own.

I am Isabella, and I had spent the whole day believing the worst of this ordeal was behind us, only to watch Camilla lay the recovered n
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