Chapter 64

• *Dante*
• I’d known it when I’d left the house this morning, and I’d known it the moment I sat down on this damn bench. There was not a part of me that hadn't accepted that the ritual would happen. From the binding, to the rites, to the certainty that Bianca would be mine - in a way she hadn't been before. Now that it was upon us, it felt... different. I no longer thought about it as much as I had before in the past.
• It no longer held the importance it had before.