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Chapter 469: I Want To See The Sun

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"I've slept."

"In a chair."

"A good chair."

She laughed. It came out cracked and soft and real, and he smiled in answer, a rare, tired smile that took years off his face.

She lay down. He lay beside her, on the narrow bunk, with his arm across her waist and his chin against her hair. The hull creaked. Somewhere above them, boots moved on the deck.

...

DANTE'S POV

He woke before dawn.

The cabin was gray. The round window showed a strip of sky the color of ash. Isabella lay curled against him, on
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    "I've slept.""In a chair.""A good chair."She laughed. It came out cracked and soft and real, and he smiled in answer, a rare, tired smile that took years off his face.She lay down. He lay beside her, on the narrow bunk, with his arm across her waist and his chin against her hair. The hull creaked. Somewhere above them, boots moved on the deck....DANTE'S POVHe woke before dawn.The cabin was gray. The round window showed a strip of sky the color of ash. Isabella lay curled against him, one hand tucked under her cheek, breathing slowly. He lay still for a while and watched her face.She is safe, he told himself.It was only partly true. He knew that. Somewhere behind them, her father was tearing through the villa. Somewhere ahead, in a dozen cities, men and women who had once paid him were deciding what his death should look like. And somewhere in between, the thing that had bothered him for days, small and cold and persistent, was still turning over.Whoever kept the antidote ke

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