Blood and Bones
She
makes a small sound against my mouth that I know no one else heard and her fingers tighten in mine.
Siobhan starts the applause.
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The holster sits flush against my leg, inner thigh. Custom fit, thin leather, completely invisible under the train of the dress. The knife straps to my right — a $xed blade, four inches, the one I've carried
since I was twenty-two, the one my father doesn't know about. Wedding appropriate,
I think, straightening the train in the anteroom before we walk into the reception. For a wedding like this one, in a world like this one, absolutely wedding appropriate. Luca catches me adjusting the strap through the fabric when he comes
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