Rocco Morning crept into the mansion on hesitant feet.It slipped through the sheer curtains, pale gold and shy, brushing the edges of the room as though unsure it was welcome. The city beneath me was beginning its daily hum, but up here, everything was still, suspended in a fragile kind of peace that had taken blood, sweat, and grief to earn.I lay on my back, staring at the ceiling, listening to her breathing beside me.Now, Fiorella slept on her stomach, her cheek half-buried in my chest, her hand curved around my ribs like it belonged there. Even sleeping, she held on, her eyebrows smoothing only when her fingers grazed the bandage beneath the thin shirt I was wearing.A reminder that I was still healing.This was a reminder that I had almost left this world without saying everything to her.I shifted my head a little to the side and watched her. Haphazard strands of dark hair had come loose from her braid and now curled softly about her face. Her parted lips shaped small breath
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