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She was breathing hard and for a quick second, there was lust in her at last, but she’d pushed it down and grabbed the handle of her door to open it “Don’t push your luck anyht”

“It wasn’t luck that I had tonight, but skill,” I said, walking to edge of her door “Have you ever seen a wolf-dog as they die?”

She flinched, her whole body freezing, her eyes going wide as she stared at me I went on as if I didn’t notice

“In those finalpart of them dies, and all that’s left is the wounded wolf The wolf knows to fight to their final breath It doesn’t care who or what, it could even be another wolf-dog, their own pup, and it will still claw and bite and rip the else but its own survival… You re, Donatella And its shame because you don’t have to die”

I stepped out of the roo and staring at the space in which I had once stood Frozen

“I look forward to tooes as planned, I’ll be able to explain what it is I’ for”

She slammed the door closed

Till tomorrow then

DONATELLA

Sitting in front of the et Gabriel’s words out ofon a loop in my mind

You re, Donatella

You re, Donatella

A…dying wolf-dog, Donatella—

“I’ up I felt the burning infrom

“I’”