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Chapter 79 SIMON I thought I understood Aurora. I thought I had learned the contours of her cruelty and the shape of her compassion, the strange and mesmerising balance she maintained between loyalty and violence, discipline and chaos. But I was fucking wrong.The Aurora I saw tonight, the woman who walked into this vengeance and bone-deep devotion, was an entirely different creature, a monster of sorts, and something too sharp to touch and too beautiful to look at for long without feeling like I was committing a dangerous sin.I watched her work with a precision that transformed brutality into a kind of art, not senseless violence but calculated, deliberate, unmarred by hesitation or guilt. Every movement she made was purposeful. I had seen killers before, assassins, soldiers, and men who hid behind bravado and false toughness. But Aurora wasn’t like them. She
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AURORAPeople channel grief in their own way, and so did I. I did not believe in God, or at least prayed for a long time except for a few visits to church when Ralph insisted. I’d failed to realise how a man like him ended up with a rosary in his hand when blood was all he spilt.And blood was all I could see in my deepest, darkest moment of grief. A quiet, razor-sharp clarity filled my bloodstream like venom and turned every breath into purpose, every thought into a weapon. That was what the world became for me the moment Viktor said Marco had been shot. Everything before that was panic, a blur of white corridors and sterile smells, voices overlapping until I couldn’t distinguish fear from rage.But the moment I stepped out of that hospital, the moment I inhaled the cold nig
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AURORAIf I had a dollar for every time a shitstorm had hit the Romano household, I’d be a rich woman. Not that I was not rich now, but you get my point.I felt bad for Lilliana, but I had very few words to console her. So, when I figured that I’d be of no help there, I decided to take up a long-promised coffee with Simon. Weirdly, this man was always available. I could call him at 3 am and he’d still pick up the phone on the second or third ring.The café Simon chose was small, quaint, but delicious.The coffee had gone cold somewhere between Simon's story about his latest disastrous date and my half-hearted attempts to convince him that maybe, just maybe, he was the problem. He disagreed, naturally. According to him,
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AURORAI was a little tired of the Romano mansion, and I needed a place to crash. Knowing full well that Marco was away with Dominic, I needed access to his special stash of alcohol because it was one of those days when alcohol kept with happy.A few weeks had passed since Viktor announced the engagement between Dominic and Lilliana, and the entire household was still adjusting to the idea. It was very rare for a celebration at the Romano mansion, but in a way, it was nice…and normal. Mia was pretending she wasn’t secretly orchestrating every security detail, and Viktor was looking ten years older, trying to hold the family’s reputation together.And me? I was just trying to stay out of it.Love wasn’t something I believed in anymore. Not i
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MARCOThree weeks later.The door to Ralph’s room was ajar, as always. He never believed in locking when he slept with a gun under his pillow and one eye open. His reflexes were his superpower, and to date, I would not know how he fired a bullet with his eyes closed and still got a bull’s eye.And when men like him got injured, they refused to believe that they should be resting or at least stay away from danger.It has been almost three weeks since he got injured, and it has been more than fifteen times that I had to change his nurse because Ralph refused to listen to anyone. Lilliana had been of some help at least, but after she was shot, she was practic
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AURORAThat was the thing about Marco. He knew; he always knew, and I was not in any mood to back down either.I lifted my chin and looked him dead in the eye, which was difficult, on account of the towel. On account of all the naked torso between me and any thought I'd planned on having. Water still gleamed on his shoulders. His hair hung over his forehead in dark strands, and the dim light made him look like a sin I'd already committed and was about to repeat on purpose."Answer the question," he said. "What are you doing in my bedroom?""I…uh…I was passing through."He took a step closer, and the room contracted around him like it always did, like the laws of physics had signed something with him privately. "Aurora. The honest version, please. I'll know if it's wrong. I always know. That's the tragedy of your life, sweetheart: you were trained by the one man you can't lie to."Sweetheart. Two letters of endearment, and he deployed them like artillery, and I hated that my pulse answ
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