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The sight of my grandmother's body hit me like a physical blow. After losing Lily, this second

death felt like the universe was determined to strip away everyone I loved.

My legs carried me forward automatically, my mind struggling to process the reality before

1. me. Grandmother looked peaceful, as if she might wake at any moment to scold me for some

transgression.

Olivia stood beside the body, her slender frame shaking with silent sobs. I reached out

instinctively to comfort her, but she flinched away from my touch, her emerald eyes hardening

as they met mine.

"Don't," she said, her voice barely audible.

he'd been waiting by the wall. My family's loyal butler looked decades older today, his

he said formally, though we'd known

inform you of the circumstances preceding Matriarch Evelyn's

nodded for him to continue, noticing

the cemetery, the matriarch checked

Dr. Fletcher's advice," Bernard

her to

ran

The Shadow Guard

for what transpired, but

restrained."

snapped up, her grief momentarily eclipsed by fierce attention. "Victoria," she said, her voice hardening with suspicion.

blazing in her eyes. "Olivia, we don't

happened yet."

her voice rising.

and hours later she's dead? You can't

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