Everything After Survival
“I’ll stand with Serena for the ceremony, calm the De Lucas, and settle the child’s registration. Once this passes, I’ll marry you properly. You know I love you.”
Serena gave a small, wounded smile.
“Aria, Dante spent ten years saving you. Is helping him once really so much to ask?”
The room fell quiet.
That was her skill. She never needed to raise her voice; she only had to place the blade where it hurt.
I waited for Dante to stop her.
He did not.
Instead, he said, “I know this is unfair, but I need you to endure it for a little while.”
Endure.
For ten years, I had endured treatment after treatment, the smell of disinfectant, and pain that made sleep impossible. I had endured because Dante
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