ADRIANThe property was exactly where Cassian said it would be, an empty stretch of land at the edge of the border with a single building sitting back from the road behind an iron gateFor one second I thought we had come to the wrong place because there was nothing about it that suggested anyone was inside, no cars, no lights in the windows, no movement anywhere, just the headlights of our car cutting through the darkness and the gate standing open as if someone had been waiting for us. Aria saw it too.“They’re letting us in.”“I know.”“You think that’s a good thing?”“No.”She looked at me, and despite everything, despite the fear still written all over her face and the way her hands had been shaking since we’d left the restaurant, there was something almost familiar in the look she gave me, the same look she’d given me a hundred times when she thought I was about to do something reckless and was deciding whether to argue with me or simply come along and make sure I survived it.“
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