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THE KEY THAT WASN'T ENOUGHVIVIAN.The drive to Dante's mansion felt longer than it actually was.I kept both hands on the steering wheel, eyes fixed on the empty road ahead, while the weight of Nico's keys sat in my jacket pocket like a stone. Not heavy in the physical sense. Heavy in the way things are heavy when they mean something you can't take back. This was it. Years of blood, lies, missions, and waiting had all been building toward tonight.I parked two streets away, killed the engine, and sat in the dark for exactly ten seconds. Then I got out. The mansion was almost eerily quiet without Dante and Sofia home. The place felt different — less alive, like a house holding its breath. The remaining guards followed their usual patrol routes exactly as I had memorized them over the last three months.Left corner. East gate. Rotate every ninety seconds.I counted under my breath. "Eighty-eight... eighty-nine... ninety."The guard turned. I moved.I slipped through the blind spot, vau

NICOThe message comes at exactly the right time.Come alone. I have something you need.No name. No explanation. I don't need either. I already know who sent it. Salvatore. For months every meeting with that man has been another piece of a puzzle I never asked to solve — every conversation, every half-truth, every carefully placed piece of information designed to keep me close enough to be useful and far enough away from whatever he was actually planning. But tonight is different. Because tonight I need something from him. Vivian. Answers. He should know at least something about who Shadow really is, and if anyone can lead me to her it's him. I drive to the location he sends me without telling anyone where I'm going. The building is abandoned when I arrive. Of course it is. Salvatore has always preferred places that look like nobody would bother coming to them — the kind of locations that exist in the gaps between things, forgotten by the city around them. I step through the doorway