Morning rolled in slowly over the villa, but there was no peace in it.The house had already quieted down after the strange encounter in the kitchen, the guards had resumed their rotations while the household staffs moved carefully through the corridors, as though any noise would disturb the fragile tension of the room, even the shattered glass had already been replaced. Yet under all the normalcy, tension still lingered.Lucia had been inside the villa and she had crossed their security, entered their kitchen, left bread and honey on the table, spoke to Matteo, and was still able to vanish even before anyone noticed. She must have really sharpened her edges with all these years she had spent in exile.For some reason, that had frightened Lorenzo less than the note she left behind.Tell him Andre still remembers the stars.Those words had taken sleep away from his eyes and by dawn he was already awake and fully dressed and was standing near the eastern terrace with a cup of untouched
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