The night had begun with a fragile sense of peace, one Amara had clung to desperately, as though it were a rare and delicate treasure that might shatter at the faintest touch. After days of spiraling conflict, betrayals, and fractured alliances, she finally sat in the softly lit parlor of Dante’s villa, the fire crackling low, her body tucked beneath a shawl while Dante paced near the window. His restlessness was obvious, but for Amara, the silence—his silence—was enough to calm her.But peace, she would soon discover, was not meant for her.The moment arrived so quietly, so unassumingly, that for a split second she almost mistook it for nothing more than weariness. A strange heaviness spread across her chest as she sipped from the glass of wine before her, its deep crimson color glinting faintly in the firelight. Her fingers, delicate and trembling, tightened around the stem of the glass.Her breath hitched. Something was wrong.Dante turned just then, as though sensing the shift in
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