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Twenty One-Rhayden

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last update Last Updated: 2024-12-06 12:17:03

Seeing Marley prone as she had been, laying on Absinthe’s bed, near death had me worried I’d lost her. That Absinthe would never forgive me for getting his hunter killed. But seeing her walk through the door, with fresh puncture marks on her throat, broke my heart.

She wouldn’t look at me. Her eyes downcast as she took the seat opposite.

Absinthe cleared his throat and I looked at my brother.

In the four hundred years I’d been alive, I’d never hated Absinthe.

Not once.

But now, I could barely contain the anger which seethed through me, and as his gaze met on mine, he faltered.

“I-” Absinthe pursed his lips and looked at the files in front of him. “I have intel on the attack from the safe house.”

He pushed a folder toward me, and another toward Marley. My gaze moved to her as she picked up the folder and opened it. She still didn’t look at me and all I wanted to do was confess to Absinthe what I’d done. That I was in love with his—

I blinked, lowering my gaze to the table, my anger su
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