LANDINGPOV: HazelI woke up when the wheels hit the runway.The specific jolt of it and then the sound of deceleration and the city lights moving past the window and Nikolai beside me already awake, which meant he had been awake the whole flight, which I had expected.I looked at him.He showed me his phone.I read Kaden's message.I read it twice.Isabella had confessed. Fully. On the record. Including what she had done to Mikhail.I looked at the window.The city was outside doing its late night thing, the specific glow of it from the ground, and we were back and the air was different from Lisbon, colder, the city's particular quality of cold that had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with the density of things happening in it."Mikhail," I said."Yes," Nikolai said."He does not know yet," I said."No," he said."You need to call him," I said."Yes," he said."Not tonight," I said. "It is late and it is a significant thing to receive by phone at this hour."He lo
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