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XVI - Darkness

Author: Andy Whitte
last update Last Updated: 2023-10-10 14:01:44

After taking an energizing shower, trying to regain the strength I had lost, I arranged my clothes in the room after leaving Max in the bathroom.

I had to convince Draven to stay away from the room so he could meet with Maddox and settle the deal he had made, in order to protect the safety of the ones I loved.

Draven had to be happy, but without me. From the moment I woke up the next day in that penthouse, I no longer belonged to myself; that life I thought I was happy in was gone.

I had no choice if I wanted to avoid having funerals of my loved ones, my parents and my siblings; my grandparents, my friends and Draven. I had enough to do with having to go back to New York to help Francesca's parents have her funeral, why they surely couldn't; they lived my friend's whole life scared for her safety and they were right.

The consequences of not knowing how to control herself were her death.

"What are you thinking?" asked Draven entering the room, as I dried my hair, "Is everything okay?"

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