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asn't a choice made in anger, but in the cold, cle
ked the door and stepped out into the hallway, my only goal to retrieve my
Kallie emerged from the shadows of the c
pitying smile. "Fee
. She "tripped," stumbling directly into me. The dark red liquid arced throug
tic gas
to draw every eye f
, her lower lip trembling with practiced hurt. "Aurore...
cess the lie. Before I could even form a den
if
imson stain blooming on her dress. He reached her in three long strides, pullin
ace a mask of rage. "W
e's arm, the way his body shielded hers. Any
id, my voice flat an
e snarled. "I saw yo
rds were an order, laced with t
urore would have bowed her head. The old Auro
ead. She died in a docto
gize for," I said, each
park on a short fuse. I saw the shift
e growled,
hed his A
compelled to obey. It was something cruder. A raw wave of po
to me like a
ard with the wall. A sharp, searing pain shot through my back, and a grunt of agony was forced
her's shriek ech
anding. Eleanor went straight to Kallie, fussing o
his face was etched with a profound, crushing disappo
. No one seemed to notice
bing fire. I looked at them. My mother. My father. My mate. The three people who were sup
ical feeling bubb
ted to
and bitter, laced with a decade of p
their anger momentarily
ed my shoulders, ignoring the protest from my bruised spine.
d as a tombstone. "You're ri
s hang in the
aking this long to see y
the last of my strength. It wa
with the May family. You," I said, looking directly
silence like a bomb. Eleanor's jaw
d as if I had phy
asn't f
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