it Gifts Chapter 54 Rejected … 1/5 AURORA Danes face was filled with unspoken pain .

If I spend my entire life trying , I can never make up for what Ive done to you .

What ? My heart was frozen .

I couldnt believe he was saying this .

I couldnt believe he finally believed me in the exact moment I could no longer believe in myself .

How … do you know she lied ? I asked .

Dane gave my hands one more squeeze , then released them .

Like I said , I had the recording analyzed by a contact of mine .

Its not your voice .

Its a deep fake , created with other recordings they had of you and AI .

I hugged myself .

So , thats how she did it .

I had no idea how it could sound so much like me .

I guess thats it .

For a long moment , we both stood there in silence .

Finally , I asked , So , what does this mean ? Do you believe me about everything , now ? Everything Ive been begging you to believe for eight years ? Dane let out a slow breath and stepped toward me .

Im … working through it .

+ Chapter 54 2/5 I stepped back .

I couldnt let him touch me .

I felt like my whole skin was poisoned .

Like if he came anywhere near me , Id do what my shadow promised she would so long ago , and he would be destroyed .

Did I care if he was ? If I was finally the one with his fate in my hands , instead of mine in his , how desperately did I want to save the man who had tried to ruin me ? TRAJAN I looked around the massive cavern and let out a low whistle .

I had served Aurora for years .

I was loyal to her .

it

her best friend , her assistant , and I

knew everything about her , I

than she did , the way our closest friends often

knew her past

even I couldnt have prepared myself for what I was

an enormous

you couldve about parked a cruise ship

above to a Chapter 54

shone through it

massive circle that looked like

made of runes and strange geometric

of Auroras book

center of the circle there was a rectangular stone block that looked disturbingly like

pretty sure thats what it was

black slab made of granite with channels carved in the

of melted candles I moved closer

smelled like old

doing down here ?

room rippled with

one pulse of a

that ? the beta

awful sensation of being watched prickled the back of

wolf quietly

here looking for pages

to the journal were

my instincts were screaming at me to turn and

54 Come on ,

I stepped into the

was a sound like distant whispers and another frozen pulse of energy

no , Archer replied

wrong , here

you

It doesnt matter .

to

into with this , but they need

, he stepped into the room with

the feeling of being watched wouldnt go

decided to ignore

, Archer and I crossed into

was another pulse of cold

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