🔑 Bonus POV
The Bargaining Chip
Dante
They gave her to me the way you hand over a signed contract — a settlement between two families who trust each other exactly as far as a loaded gun.
I expected a frightened girl. I got a woman who read the terms of her own sale and then, at the table full of the men who arranged it, asked for a better clause.
That was the night I stopped thinking of her as a bargaining chip. That was the night I understood I had just lost a negotiation I did not know I was in.
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