The Black Rose
Lorenzo was in the study, hunched over his laptop, running traces on financial movements that might lead us to Elijah's location.
That left me and Ellie alone in the living room.
She sat curled on the couch, a book open in her lap that she hadn't turned a page of in twenty minutes. The fire cast shadows across her face, highlighting the dark circles under her eyes that makeup couldn't quite hide. Her blonde hair caught the firelight, turning it copper and gold.
Beautiful. She was so fucking beautiful it physically hurt to look at her sometimes.
I watched her from the armchair, my body still and silent in the way that made people forget I was in the room. But Ellie never forgot. Her awareness
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