I can resist everything except temptation. —Oscar wilde CAMELLIA I never seemed to catch a break. “You’re telling me,” I repeated, careful to mimic Lucien and his friends word for word, “that you just happened to be around when the fire started, wiped out more than half the building, and all the nearby hotels just happened to be fully booked?” I let the words hang, hoping they’d notice how ridiculous it sounded. “For the last time, yes,” Lucien said. Darius had already slipped out of the conversation, unusually silent. He and Lucien never agreed, so his quiet almost felt like consent and that made me uneasy. No way was I just going to follow him blindly; this whole setup was too convenient, too staged. Still, my options were laughably limited. Lily was the only person I even knew in this city, and it was far too late to knock on anyone else’s door. Every other plan was dead before it even started. “You’ll be safer with him,” Darius finally said. He stepped forward,
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