The night broke against the city like a wave against glass, very quiet, yet fractured, almost elegant in its ruin.Matteo had always liked cities at night. The way the light fell across wet streets, the hum of traffic beneath everything, the sound of people living, lying, trying. It was easier to disappear in noise than in silence. And lately, that’s all he wanted, to vanish.But Raven had made that impossible.They’d been in the new safehouse for three weeks, maybe four; the days blended together. Raven and Elias had adjusted faster than he did, or maybe they just pretended better. The walls were thin, the air smelled of old cigarettes and fresh paint, and the TV never worked right. It was a place built for ghosts.And now Raven had gone and stirred one up.He had told her not to take that meeting,he had told her three times. “We’re supposed to be invisible,” he’d said. “You don’t meet anyone. Not contacts, not dealers, not old friends.”But she had gone anyway.By the time he got th
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