Rafael’s POVThe air in the warehouse had that metallic tinge to it like blood and old promises all rusty and heavy nd impossible to ignore. I had just handed Adriana over to Nathan, whose face had gone rigid the second he realized the truth: his half sister, flesh of his blood was the girl I brought back from the shadows. The sister he never knew he had. Life really liked playing these cosmic jokes, didn’t it?He took her gently with an expression I’d never seen on him before equal parts softness and regret. I turned away. This was their moment now and I had a meeting to prepare for.I was going to meet Amris the Albanian queen, the ghost of my past, the woman whose blood ran through my veins and the woman whose pain had been carved by Basha’s hands for decades. She was my supposed mother and until recently, I hadn’t even dared to say that out loud. But now things had changed. I had my woman, my daughter and I had vengeance clawing its way up my throat like fire I couldn’t swallow.
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