Chapter 80 Extra – Zoe's Denial

• DANTE
• The fire still burned in the fireplace, though no longer with the violence it had when I took her as if the world were ending. The embers consumed themselves slowly, glowing red, while the cabin lay steeped in that thick silence that only appears after the storm… and after sin.
• Zoe slept tangled in the sheets, naked to the waist, her hair stuck to her cheek. Her lips were slightly parted, as if even in dreams she were about to tell me something that always got trapped behind her teeth.