Ashes Of Desire
"The great Alex Voss, covered in flour."
"We should actually do that," Lila declared. "Cooking lesson tonight. Team building, round two."
Giuseppe, trimming a nearby hedge, smiled. "I would be honored, signorina. The kitchen is always open for family."
By afternoon they'd moved down to the lakeshore, where Luca had already laid out a picnic. They played cards, traded stories, Alex offering a rare unguarded memory from before the fire while Eve wove in carefully edited pieces of her own invented past. When Lila challenged him to a race along the path — "Show us if the roller coaster hero's still got speed" — he kicked off his shoes without hesitation and won by half a stride, breathing hard,
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