Vows of Silver and Sin
Every time he shifted gears, his arm grazed my knee.
Neither of us moved away.
"You're staring," Dante said, his voice cutting through the hum of the heater.
"I’m observing," I corrected, though my heart gave a traitorous thump. "The black veins. They’re coming back, aren't they?"
Dante glanced down at his right hand. The faint, dark lines were crawling back from his knuckles toward his wrist, like ink spreading through water. "The neutralization was a temporary surge. As the Shadow-Heart settles into its dormant state, my curse returns to its natural equilibrium. I am becoming lethal again, Elara."
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