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Chapter 40: Danger

Dahlia

Alaric’s eyes meet mine, and I know he is counting the same steps. The east hall. The never-open window. The mirror. The pantry. The footprints that are mine and not mine. He is building a clock in his head to measure a danger that refuses to take a shape.

“We are not chasing her today,” he s...