Ashes Of Desire
"Then call them."
They called that evening, from the cottage, the fire lit again and Aria posted discreetly somewhere on the hillside above them. Eve sat just out of frame at first, giving him the moment, and watched his whole face change the instant the connection resolved — two faces on the screen, older than she'd have guessed, weathered by a year in hiding but unmistakably, gratefully alive.
"Alessandro." His mother's voice cracked on the name, and Alex made a sound Eve had never once heard out of him, not as Alex, not as Valentino — something raw and boyish and entirely undefended.
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