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 .

she commanded it , Id die

, her assistant , and

everyone knew everything about her , I

even know more than she did , the way our closest friends

knew her past was dark

I couldnt have prepared myself for

in an enormous cavern

huge , you couldve about parked a cruise ship in

arched high above to a Chapter

through

massive circle that looked like it had been painted in

runes and strange geometric

me of Auroras book

was a rectangular stone block that looked disturbingly

fact , I was pretty

of granite with channels

puddled remains of melted candles I moved closer and got a nose full of rot

like old blood

were the Reeds doing down here ?

the room rippled with

one pulse of a frozen

? the beta

awful sensation of being watched prickled the back of

quietly

for pages torn

similar to the journal were written on the floor

as my instincts were screaming at me to turn and run

Come on , I said

into the room

a sound like distant whispers and another frozen pulse

no , Archer replied

, here ,

you feel

It doesnt matter .

have to

Aurora and Dane are into with this , but they need those

a second later , he

shoulders , but the feeling of being watched wouldnt

decided to ignore it

I crossed into the

another pulse of cold

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