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CHAPTER THIRTY-ONERHEYES.She came into the room and closed the door behind her, but she didn't slam it, and neither did she raise her voice as she spoke. I was expecting a scene, probably tears and shattered glass, or her father's name thrown at me like a knife. I was prepared for any of that, but her calm was something else."Put a shirt on, Rheyes," Lui said, bending to pick my discarded shirt from the carpet and hold it out to me between two fingers like something she had found in the street. "You look quite ridiculous."I didn't take it from her, not with Calista's letter still crushed in my fist… I couldn't make my fingers open."Get out," I said hoarsely."No," she replied, dropping the shirt on the bed beside me and walking even further into the room. "I think we both know you're not in a position to give me orders this morning."She stopped at the window and looked at the torn blind lying on the floor, and then at the garden below, empty and gold in the early light. Her face

Última actualización : 2026-10-02

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CHAPTER THIRTY-TWOCALISTAThe tunnel was filled with a horrible smell, and the lighter in my hand shook so badly that the little flame kept bending sideways, threatening to die at any given moment. My bag bumped against my hip with every step I took, heavier than it looked, and stuffed with everything I owned in the entire world now. Behind me, somewhere far above, Rheyes would still be sleeping in that bed, probably going to think that I may have gone to use the bathroom when he woke up. He would still be trusting a promise that I was breaking with every single step I took away from him.I didn't let myself think about his face. Not yet anyways, because if I did, then I would definitely be tempted to turn around and run back to him after such a passionate night. But turning around would mean having his father's gun pointed at my head, or even worse…watching being Rheyes forced to choose between protecting me and protecting everything he had ever worked to become.The message on the

Última actualización : 2026-10-03

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CHAPTER THIRTY-THREECALISTAI walked nearly two miles along the service road before I found a place where I could finally wait without feeling like a target standing in the open, a small bus shelter that was half collapsed with age, and had its plastic walls yellowed and cracked.I could have taken a taxi, but didn't know how taxis worked exactly, and it was because the only times I’d seen them close up was when they came to drop off some minor guest or another at the Donati estate. The stranger's papers had included a small card with a phone number written on the back, and when I finally summoned the courage to dial it from a payphone near the shelter, a tired voice on the other end simply asked for an address and told me to wait.Twenty minutes later, an ugly old sedan pulled up, and the driver, a heavily built man who didn't look at me directly, took the folded bills I offered without a word and drove.I spent the entire ride staring out of the window, watching the city change ar

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FOURCALISTAI didn't wait to hear anything else after that. I quickly threw my bag out the window first, hearing it thud softly into the overgrown bushes below, and then I climbed out after it, too filled with adrenaline to feel fear about the height. My fingers scraped against the rough brick ledge as I grabbed the large drainpipe and lowered myself as far as I could before letting go. I hit the ground hard, and my ankle twisted painfully. I bit down on the pain and forced myself upright, grabbing my bag and running without even knowing what direction I was moving in.Behind me, I heard a door slam open, followed by heavy footsteps pounding down a hallway, and a man's voice shouting something I didn't even bother to make out.I just ran… ran until my lungs burned and my twisted ankle hurt with terrible pain, cutting through a narrow alley between two buildings, jumping over a low fence into someone's overgrown backyard, and startling a dog into frantic barking that I

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CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVECALISTABy the tenth day, I stopped counting the money in my bag, because counting it only made the fear worse.I was learning the city now, and I was learning it the hard way… Stay where the crowds were thick during the day, because one face could hide inside a hundred others, and stay off the streets once it got dark, because a woman walking alone and fast was easily the kind of thing people noticed. I only ate when my body forced me to...bread, fruit, and whatever was cheap enough that the vendor didn't even bother looking up at my face.I hadn't slept properly in days, because every time I closed my eyes, I heard that man's voice again, down in the motel lobby, describing me like someone he knew personally since birth. So now I jump at everything… A stranger walked too close, or even a car slowing down near the curb.That morning, I woke up in a doorway, unable to even remember how I got there. My back was stiff fr

Última actualización : 2026-10-04

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CHAPTER THIRTY-SIXCALISTAI gave her a false name the next morning, the one from my forged papers, and Mariana took it with a small, knowing nod that told me she didn't believe it for a second. But I was fine since she didn't bother to probe further."Alright then, Elena," she said, placing a cup of tea in front of me at the small table in the back room. "Elena it is."She never pushed for anything more than that, not even in the days that followed, not even as I kept sleeping on the narrow bed in her storage room, surrounded by buckets of cut stems. My ankle had healed enough by the end of the first week, enough for me to be able to walk without a limp, though it still ached when the weather turned cold, a small, dull reminder of that first terrifying night.I tested her constantly, and it was because I just couldn't help it…because Mariana, kind as she seemed, was still a stranger who had easily offered shelter to someone she knew abso

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CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVENCALISTABy the fourth week, I had started earning a little money of my own, mostly from small jobs that Mariana found for me around the neighborhood after she decided that I had learned enough not to embarrass either of us.I delivered flower arrangements to addresses scattered across the district, carrying careful bundles of roses and lilies up narrow staircases to strangers' apartments, and always taking a different route back to the shop that was different from the one I used going out. I swept the floors of a small bakery two streets over in exchange for day old bread. I helped an elderly tailor organize his back room for a few coins an afternoon, never staying in his shop long enough for his assistant to know my face too well.I was careful, and almost obsessively, to the extent that even my muscles ached by the end of each day from the tension of staying alert all the time. I never walked the same path twice in one week,

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CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHTCALISTAThat night, I lay awake on the narrow bed for a long time, staring up at the ceiling and turning Mariana's warning over and over in my head until I couldn't think anymore.I thought about everything she had given me since the morning I collapsed outside her window…the food, the lessons, and the small room that had become, in just a few weeks, closer to a home than anywhere else I had lived before. I thought about what would happen to her if those well dressed men with their cold eyes and hand drawn sketches ever knocked on her door and found me standing behind it.It was something I couldn't let happen, so by morning, I had already made up my mind. I found Mariana in the front of the shop, arranging a fresh delivery of tulips into tall glass vases, and I stood in the doorway for a moment just watching her before I finally worked up the nerve to speak."I'm leaving," I said, and my voice sounded more composed than I expected it to.Mariana didn't stop arran

Última actualización : 2026-10-05

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CHAPTER THIRTY-NINECALISTAThe fear on Mariana's face was gone almost as quickly as it had appeared, hidden back under her usual steady calm, but I had seen it, and I knew she knew I had seen it too."Viktor," she said, straightening up behind the counter, her voice carefully composed. "You didn't waste any time.""You said it was urgent," the man said, stepping further into the shop, while his dark coat shifted around him. His eyes moved past Mariana, going through the small room once, and then landed directly on me. "Is this her?""This is her," Mariana said, and something in the careful, protective way she said it made my chest tighten.Viktor crossed the shop floor slowly, and then stopped a few feet away from where I stood frozen by the bucket of roses. He studied me like a piece of furniture he was considering buying, assessing and cataloguing with no warmth in his eyes at all."Stand up straight," he said, "let me look at you properly."I didn't move. "I can hear you fine from

Última actualización : 2026-10-05

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CHAPTER FORTYCALISTAThe door swung shut behind Viktor, and the small bell chimed its hollow little goodbye, and for a long time neither Mariana nor I said a single word."A price on my head," I said finally, and the sentence tasted strange and unreal in my mouth, almost like it belonged to someone else's life."He wasn't lying," Mariana said, crossing to the window and watching Viktor disappear down the street. "Men like him don't waste breath on lies that don't benefit them somehow. If he's heard it, others have too."My legs felt unsteady beneath me, and I lowered myself onto the little stool by the register with my hands pressed against my knees to keep them from shaking."Then I really do have to go," I said. "Today. Right now, before anyone else comes through that door asking about me."Mariana turned from the window, and the look on her face had hardened into something I hadn't seen from her before, sharp and decisive, all the traces of the earlier fear burned away."You can't

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