Kill Me Softly

Riona Voss wakes up in a concrete room with no windows, raw wrists, and twenty steps to a door that only opens from the outside. She counts the guards. She names the water stain on the ceiling Bruno. She does not let herself think about Celeste.

On the other side of the city, Celeste is not sleeping. She's burning things down - alliances, concessions, favors saved for real wars. Her advisor tells her she's destroying everything she built for one person. She says yes without stopping.

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