121 Wet & scented room

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Now alone with Dante amidst the creeper-entwined pillars and the backdrop of the Blackthorn rose, Anastasia's heart continued to race. She saw him take a deep breath, as if unconvinced by his grandmother's earlier words. His eyes roamed from her slender neck to her shoulders before finally settling on her hands.

Anastasia felt him pick up her hand, which she had coughed into, and turn it around as if examining it, but it was clean as she had wiped her palm against the side of her dress. 

"It doesn't look like you are visibly injured anywhere," Dante murmured. 

"Nothing happened to me; we were only talking," Anastasia reassured him, and she saw Dante give her a nod in response.