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30 // Another Side

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“Violet?”

She fixed her perfect short silver jumpsuit and took baby steps towards Shalom and I, her walk so regal as if she was flaunting her beauty.

Alex joined us, followed by Lydia. They looked like death.

“Things don't have to end this way, all you have to do is surrender and hand yourself to the queen, that's all we want from you,” Violet said.

“What are you talking about?” A male voice interjected, and the man I'd been dreading to see came into view.

I don’t know what I was expecting to see, but he looked worse than I’d expected. He was thinner and sullen, and the clothes on his back looked a little too big on him. He seemed a bit darker in complexion, and if it was not for how ashy he was, I would have assumed that it was from the sun. The unkempt beard on his face made his face look thinner.

He looked sick.

I spent so much time battling between the hatred and love for him, and after everything that happened, I had so much anger, but now that I was standing in front of h
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