Kingdom of Ash and Blood
Matteo opened his mouth, then closed it again.
She paced toward the window, the rain blurring the Sicilian night into streaks of silver. “He’s using her, Matteo. Alma doesn’t understand what she’s been made into.”
“Then we save her.”
Amara turned, eyes cold, distant. “No. We end this.”
Her voice didn’t tremble, but her chest did. Because deep down, beneath the fury, beneath the iron will — she was still a woman who once loved the devil.
She reached into the drawer, pulled out a photograph — Alma at twelve, smiling in an orphanage courtyard in Budapest. Amara had watched her from a distance all those years ago, too afraid to claim her, too afraid to ruin her.
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