PROLOGUE: IT WAS TIME

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Alessia Cavallo was shivering hard like someone who had high fever; a catapult reaction which had been residing in her for years, the catalyst provoking her tremor was a mere phone call. It was time. The words reverberated inside her mind like a mantra while she tried to keep herself from succumbing to the rising panic. Her hands shook as she disconnected the international call she’d just received. It was Fiona Landon calling for her help. Although she’d always known that such a time would come where she would have to finally face her destiny, it still felt like her world had shattered around her. The mercurial illusion of security she’d built around her, in the hope that she might forget that such a day might come where the Landons would never require her ‘services’, suffered a painful d

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