บททั้งหมดของ The Wrong Bride,The Right Wife: บทที่ 11 - บทที่ 13

My bare feet hit the runner, cold against the wool.Through the crack in the door, Dante stayed on one knee beside the bed. His head was down against the mattress, his broad shoulders hunched forward like a collapsed wall. In his hands—scarred, blunt fingers that had signed away my family’s house four hours ago—he held a small, grey stuffed rabbit with one ear chewed down to the cotton stuffing.I didn't mean to make a sound. But my heel scraped the brass transition strip between the hallway and the threshold.A tiny, dry click.Dante didn't flinch. He didn't drop the toy. He set it on the eyelet pillow with slow, agonizing care, stood up, and turned toward the door.His face was completely blank. Not angry. Just hollow, like a statue someone had forgotten in an empty lot.I backed up two steps, my pulse kicking against my throat. "Dante—"He crossed the room in four strides, grabbed the edge of the steel door, and hauled it open. His other hand shot out, his fingers wrapping around m

The freight lift dropped through fifty floors of concrete and steel, stopping in the sub-basement with a dull jerk.Down here, it smelled like damp lime and machine grease. No windows, no street noise. Just the low hum of transformer units behind chain-link cages.Marcus was waiting at the end of the hall. He had unclipped his vest at the shoulders, and his forearms were black with soot. He had an iPad tucked under one arm."Two in custody," Marcus said. "The driver from the ramp, and her.""The driver?" Dante asked, not slowing down."Moretti soldier. Collarbone's busted. Hasn't said a word.""Let him sit with it," Dante said. "Open the gate."I stayed behind him. I had on his coat over my slip, tied tight at the waist, and a pair of flat leather slides Marcus had pulled out of a locker. My feet were cold against the concrete. Dante hadn't told me to stay on fifty, and I wasn't about to ask.Marcus hit the keycard against the reader. The magnetic lock gave a short hiss, and the iron