CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE VORONIN’S FORTRESS, CRIMEA – The day after the fireThe convoy tore through the gates at 14:12.I was already running before the first engine cut.Dante stepped out, coat whipping in the wind, eyes wild with thirty-six hours of no sleep and pure, murderous focus.I slammed into him so hard the air left his lungs.His arms crushed me to his chest, one hand fisted in my hair, the other banded around my waist like he could fuse us together through sheer force.I inhaled him, gunpowder, leather, espresso, the faint trace of the cologne I bought him the Christmas before everything burned.Real.Alive.Mine.He pulled back only far enough to run his hands over me, frantic, clinical, terrified: fingers probing my skull, my throat, my ribs, checking for fractures, for blood, for anything permanent.His voice cracked. “Tell me you’re whole.”I couldn’t
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