Vivienne slammed the bronze-bound door to her private chamber, the echo reverberating like a drum of war. Her pale eyes blazed under the dim torchlight, the flicker of flame dancing across her sharp features as she glared at the empty room that had just borne news she didn’t want to hear. Her hunters had failed. Amira Cross had survived. Not only survived, but she had outwitted them, using the abandoned outskirts of Crimson Crescent to her advantage.Her fingers clenched the edge of the table, white-knuckled, as her mind raced. The Council would expect results, and tonight, she had none. Not one. “Impossible,” she hissed, the word more to herself than anyone else. “That whelp—she has grown cleverer than I imagined.”Vivienne turned, pacing in long, calculated steps. Every shadow in the chamber seemed to bend toward her fury, every flame an accomplice to her wrath. The thought of Amira, alive and defiant, ignited a cold, burning anger inside her. The girl had survived months in hiding,
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