**Aurora's POV**I counted the exits all the way. Two out the front of the ballroom, one through the kitchen, one out onto the terrace. It was an old habit, older than Jace, older even than Tina, something my mother used to do unconsciously whenever we entered a room full of people who could hurt us, and smile as she did it.The dress felt like both armor and a costume. Navy blue silk, clean cut, nothing like that red thing Tina used to force me to wear for a stage I never chose.I told myself that difference mattered. For most of the evening, it did. I had chosen the navy blue myself, over Jace's suggestion of something darker, something that would have made me look more like a possession on his arm than a person standing beside him, and the small, stubborn victory of choosing my own dress had sustained me all the way through the front doors.He stopped holding me after about ten minutes."Mrs. Carter," said a woman, her gloved hand extended, diamonds sparkling in the chandelier ligh
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