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43: The dark Secret

Author: Dark Gold
last update Last Updated: 2025-02-27 16:00:30

Chapter 43

The Dark Secret

Axel

I could feel it. The blood. The way it burned its way up from my chest and forced its way out through my mouth. I’d been coughing it up for days now, and with each violent hack, I knew, knew that I was running out of time.

The antidote stopped working. Asher and Aiden had done everything they could to save me, even after I begged them not to. But there was no more hope left. The blood kept coming, a dark and gruesome reminder of what had been done to me. The poison was winning. And I, helpless, was fading.

I heard the faint sound of Aiden’s footsteps outside the door as he paced back and forth. Asher, too, was here, his quiet desperation pushing him to every possible corner in the room, as if, looking for something or anything at all that could help. But there was no help left. No antidote. No Dr. Maverick. The man had disappeared without a trace several days ago, and the search had turned up nothing. Without a doubt, I knew that I was already a lost ca
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