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rtment smelled of turp

vas propped on her easel, brush poised to create some

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owl, she flung the b

re walls, leaving a streak o

muttered, raking shaky fing

the dizziness and lethargy wasn't helping

, and when she checked it

erself before p

heart?" He asked while she jus

with Aiden could barely think of what the

saw no future, neither di

brow, having been occupied all day

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her coo

you forget such an important day?"

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acting strange. First my mother's anniversary

my...

. He always had to be s

ke. I'm sorry I forgo

d to it. Do you even care ab

e way her brows shot

asking him t

t year and she never complained about it... only che

he

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try to

re placing her p

to clear he

hook the building's

g her easel for balance

the stairwell, coupled with blood

bouncing off every surface. Sobs and plea

crept to her door and pressed

the musty air - blood, he

iled, eyes wide at the hunched shad

with inhuman grace despite th

muscles rippled in choreographed

ehammer punched through th

er mouth to muffle the sound as the monst

sickening snaps and crunches that r

ter. M

st, one of the monstrous shapes sp

ling metallic howl reverberat

ght he

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away as blinding terror

thundering of her own he

beady black eyes boring into the so

, the growls g

gainst the paralyzing fear,

he scr

the kind that cut through t

slowed the pre

r as the beast reared back on its hau

peed, a dark blur

ew backward, crashing through the drywall

st the door as the second nightmarish shape landed

he other twisted forms - powerful and male from the

nherently..

azure eyes locking on her f

burning in those feral depths before they quickly

revealing ivory dagge

rom deep within that barrel chest,

, the initial beast l

impact, for teari

never

s the raging thing was launched

distance, planting a heavy boot on its skull

e

oug

with Alpha power, freezing th

t with snarling aggression as a newcomer

, this man looked

raven hair swept back revealed chiseled features

, Sophia instincti

d entitlement as he calmly appraised the carnage

es sliced to the beast pinned underneath

d to be put down. Pe