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lub was sealed shut, but the building's vintage ventilatio
t watch that the cold metal was biting into her palm. Freezing rainwater dripped from the hem of her cheap trench coat, pooling into
last three hours standing in the freezing New York rain, clutching it, praying that the weight
ventilation grate. It burned the back of Erna's throat,
side. The crisp clink of ice again
arty last night?" Sterling's voice drifted out, c
a sound so devoid of human warmth that
physical blow to her chest. "She'd do anything to keep her claws in the M
ess oxygen. Her stomach dropped
ulder blades hit the freezing wall
sickeningly sweet sympathy. "She's probably just terrified of losing the Cher
s tone shifted instantly. The harshness vanished, replaced by
like that. Hearing him give it to someone else f
your family's black money anyway," another
nd credit card in her name this morning. Cut off the money, and that greed
out coat. A bitter, hollow laug
he final result was, the car accident didn't just erase Apollo's memory. It also killed the man who loveuffocating weight of the past three years vanish
inst the wall. She didn't hesitate. She dro
the bottom with aut a stack of slightly wrinkled papers. She had pr
ened, locking into place. The shattered gri
nd pushed the heavy m
screech, instantly silencing the
ped toward the entrance. Th
ad. She walked straight toward Apollo, who was sitting in t
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