WHEN POWER LEARNS TO KNEEL
Her apartment felt too small, too ordinary, as if the walls themselves whispered that she was no longer safe in her own life.
Morning came gray and hesitant, sunlight barely reaching through the blinds. She sat at the kitchen counter, nursing a cup of coffee that had long gone cold, her thoughts circling like predators. What Dante called learning, Nina now realized, was surviving. The difference between following a man like Dante and running was subtle and unforgiving.
By mid-afternoon, her phone vibrated against the counter. Unknown number. She hesitated but answered.
“Good morning,” Dante’s voice said, calm as always, but carrying the faintest edge of amusement. “You survived your first ni
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