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Chapter 5: Bound by Shadows

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The room was tense, the air weighted with unsaid words. The only constant was the low mechanical murmur of the refrigerator, drowned out sometimes by the wind roaring against the windows and the rain tapping like fingertips against the glass. Outside, lightning burst across the heavens, ghostly flashes lighting the walls that appeared to reflect the turmoil within Izora's head.

Her fingers still hovering above the divorce papers, she froze. The pen quivered between her fingers, the cool metal moist from her hand sweating. Their breath was shallow, heart thumping so loudly in her ears she could not hear anything else as her chest rose and sank in irregular intervals.

Too substantial, too real to be a hallucination, Kaiser Eirian filled the doorway like a black shadow. His presence was stifling. He merely was, no need to talk to dominate the room. He seemed a calm menace, one hand in his pocket, the other resting against the doorframe. He wore a fitting black suit with a sharp, glossy
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