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He was sent to kill him. He chose to save him instead. Dante Voss is the most feared operative in a shadow organization known only as The Meridian — a man built from discipline, silence, and controlled destruction. He doesn't ask questions. He completes missions. Until the night he's assigned to eliminate Elian Rhys, a brilliant rogue journalist who has gotten dangerously close to exposing the most powerful criminal empire in Eastern Europe. Elian Rhys doesn't run from danger — he chases it. Armed with nothing but a sharp mind, a sharper tongue, and a death wish he'd never admit to, Elian has spent years dismantling corrupt systems from the shadows of his encrypted laptop. He's used to being hunted. He's never been wanted. When Dante chooses to pull Elian out of the crossfire instead of pulling the trigger, neither man is prepared for what follows — a frantic, continent-spanning flight through underground networks, enemy safehouses, and burning cities, where the real danger isn't the assassins on their trail. It's each other. Dante has never needed anyone. Elian has never trusted anyone. But survival has a way of stripping a man bare — and somewhere between a firefight in Budapest and a stolen night in Lisbon, something raw and irreversible begins to build between them.
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burn between us CHAPTER 112 — ELENA IN BRUSSELS
The message came on a Wednesday in March.Elena Vasić, Brussels, two weeks into the visiting researcher position at the European Policy Research Institute. She messaged through the foundation channel — not the intake channel, the foundation's general correspondence, which was the distinction of someone who understood that she was no longer an intake and was beginning to occupy a different relationship with what the house had given her.The research position is everything I needed it to be. My supervisor is a man named Professor Vandewalle who assigns problems the way you described Dona Beatriz describing garlic — with complete personal investment in the outcome. I've been given a dataset of Eastern European electoral patterns from 2015 to 2023 and I've been told to find the signal in the noise. I find the signal easily. It turns out eight years of applied analysis doesn't disappear — it recalibrates. I wanted you to know. — E.V.Dante read it at the kitchen table and then read it agai
Huling Na-update : 2026-06-04burn between us CHAPTER 111 — FEBRUARY WISTERIA
They drove to Cardiff on the eighth of February.The timing was Màiri's — the final treatment assessment was on the tenth, and she had wanted them there before it, not after, because she'd said on the Thursday call: "I want you in the house before the appointment. Not waiting for the result. Just — there." Dante had booked the travel the same evening she said it.The Alentejo in February was doing its clear, cold, structural self — the bones of the garden visible, the cork trees stripped to their essential shapes, the sky the specific pale blue of a winter that knew what it was doing. They left it in good order. Elena was at the kitchen table with her academic reentry materials when they said goodbye — she was leaving the following week, the Brussels visiting researcher position beginning in March, and she was in the final stage of the specific transition Dante had come to recognize in all the intakes: the point where the destination was real enough to lean toward."Take care of the s
Huling Na-update : 2026-06-04burn between us CHAPTER 110 — THE CARDIFF CHRISTMAS
Christmas day was the third exceptional one.The first had been the previous year — the oil and the jam and the box and the fire and the grey-green eyes reading them both. The second had been the March visit with the frightened undertow and the courage that had met it. This one was different from both — lighter, not because the hard things had been removed but because they had been moved through, which was its own kind of lightness.Elian cooked.This was his initiative, prepared in advance — he had studied the kitchen in the way he studied everything, with the specific attention of someone who was going to do something correctly and needed to understand the system first. He had called Dante for three days of kitchen consultations. He had called Dona Beatriz, which had produced a forty-minute phone call that Elian had summarized as I now know more about Portuguese Christmas food than any Welsh journalist has any right to know.He cooked from eight in the morning with the focused pleas
Huling Na-update : 2026-06-02burn between us CHAPTER 109 — CARDIFF IN DECEMBER
She met them at the door.Not the hospital door, the house door — she was well enough for the house, had been home for two months, moving carefully but without the quality of someone who was being stopped by her body. She had the specific vitality of someone who had been through something and was, on the other side of it, more fully themselves than before.She looked at them with the grey-green eyes."You're early," she said."We wanted to come," Elian said."I know why you came early," she said. "Come in."The house was warm. She had lit the fireplace in the front room — the same fireplace where they'd sat on the night of the diagnosis, which now held a different kind of warmth, the specific warmth of a room that has been frightened in and is being warm in again.She had the novel on the side table.The copy Elian had sent her — printed and bound by her own hand, the way she did things she considered worth the effort. The pages had the specific quality of a book that had been read: t
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