Katarina's POV At VelmorraI woke up sore, spoiled, and starving.Not just for food.The air in Velmorra was sharp. Clean. Cold against my bare legs as I walked barefoot across marble that could swallow a city. This place was massive. A goddamn haunted cathedral with too many halls, too many stairs, too many secrets.And it was mine now.Mine to wander. Mine to touch. Mine to ruin.I wore nothing but one of Vittorio's shirts—white, oversized, unbuttoned halfway down my chest. No bra. No panties. Just skin and hunger.Freedom had a taste. It tasted like sweat, salt, and sex from the night before. My thighs still ached in the best way.Away from the cartel. Away from Italy. Away from death and blood and mothers who weren't mothers.Just me. And the De Luca men.My stomach growled as I turned into another corridor."Shut up," I muttered to it. "We're busy."The corridor twisted downward, cut from stone older than any of us. Cold and dark, like a cave. Like something abandoned on purpose.
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