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"The house will likely be sold by whoever inherits it," Dante continued, "so I assus yourself before all of that happens If I assuene will take you to a hotel, but in case you forgot, there isn’t one close You’re looking at a forty-five minute drive each way The funeral is in two hours, so you won’t have much tiuest"

I glared at hi I should’ve guessed you’d pull so like this"

"What did you expect? Did you think I was going to put you up at the shitty hotel over on Main Street?"

"I’m used to shitty hotels"

"You knohat?" His voice was unsteady suddenly, voluive a fuck what you’re used to" By the unholy light in his eyes, I could tell he wasn’t talking about hotels anymore

Perversely but predictably, his apparent fury calmed my own I leveled a serene look on him, one meant to either stir him up or stop hi over I’ll stay here and I’ll go throughbehind that I wanted to keep"

His jaas clenched, eyes still flashing hotly at ht surprise yourself," he told one It was a the landmines we set for each other with theover even one of his, particularly not at the start of as bound to be a trying few days

"I’m quite certain," I enunciated slowly, "that there is not one thing I left behind in this town that I have any interest in now"

He see, and without another word, I walked into the house

Point for h I wasn’t sure it counted It certainly didn’t feel like a victory

CHAPTER

FIFTEEN

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,

Nor hell a fury like a woht tofor Dante to handle