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nly vibrant thing about her was the crimson silk gown-a mocking symbol of the gilded cage I had rotted in for eleve
orchestrated my absolute ruin. He forged the evidence, branding me a *Rat* who sold a vital bootlegging route to the FBI. An unforgivable sin in our world. A death sentence. Under the guise of
ly break. My failing body was giv
led, biting into my bare skin, but I welcomed the pain. It meant I was still alive, if only for a few more minute
door clicked
as suffocating and dominant as ever. When his dark eyes found me standing in th
ce a low rumble over the wind. He closed the di
cone," I rasped, my
in the freezing air. He hat
e ordered, the absolute autho
ne. I pointed a trembling finger at the bonsai. "I hate this tree. I hate
le ticking in his cheek.
g gasps. "When my heart stops, don't bury me in your family plot. Throw my bod
cracked, a sound I had never
it the snow-covered tiles. He pulled me against his chest,
n my heaven and my hell. "Loving you, Damien...
me. I did it to keep
the last ounce of strength in my shattered so
we never
d faded into ab
ien
ia
and adoration, were fixed on the stormy sky, empty and unseeing. The crimson s
ighter against me, trying to force my own life into her fr
mmand held no po
, safe from the vipers of Chicago-had ultimately killed her. I buried my face in her snow-dusted ha
d she had cursed
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