06/03/2026 07:03

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I’ll wait a while and join him later, then he won't be able to stop me. She had not actually lied. What's happening? said Anne. Only Stefan seemed to have any power to soothe her, his eyes sparkling like azure lakes.

A long, deep kiss between two people who knew each other far more intimately than anyone had guessed; two people who had recently become lovers. He lifted her left hand and she realised with a chill that she was still wearing her wedding ring. Kristian was gone, but his threat hung in the air like a column of smoke. Anything else I can cope with—but dark cellars, and people coming back from the dead— Charlotte sat down beside her and hugged her.