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Forty Four- Rhayden
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2024-12-14 16:22:06I watched Marley leave.Standing in my room, peering out of the window like a creepy old man, my stomach churned with sickness as the blacked-out SUV left the mansion grounds and turned toward the airport, the feeling I would never see my human lover again, building with every mile further she was away form me.
The knock at my door was light, but I knew exactly who it’d be. There was only one idiot who would come to see me, while I was in this kind of mood. Most of the other vamps in the coven had given me a wide berth, when I had been stomping through the mansion. They knew better than to try to stop me to ask what was wrong. I would have lost my shit and snapped at anyone.
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