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Chapter 22- Atlas
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2024-10-29 19:42:56**Atlas**
A very small part of me knew this wasn’t a good idea. I’d never killed a human before. There hadn’t been any reason to. They normally remained separated from our supernatural world. Killing a human would feel different to killing another supernatural being. It wouldn’t be a fair fight for them. However, I wasn’t interested in a fight, I was only interested in the kill.
The other concern was that I might be seen. Keeping humans in the dark about us worked in our favour. We could live in our world and leave them in theirs.
The trouble was at this precise moment I wasn’t listening to any reason. The image of Thea’s back so badly beaten kept flashing in front of my eyes. To know that she could have died a slow and painful death as a result of infection made my blood boil. I wanted to avenge her. I knew that if Thea married Jarin, it would be on
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