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 assistant , and I would be her

knew everything about

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

her past

have prepared myself for

in an enormous cavern

couldve about parked

ceiling arched high above to a Chapter 54 round hole

shone through it

the ground , there was a massive circle that looked like it had been painted

made of runes and strange geometric

of Auroras

a rectangular stone block that looked

I was pretty

made of granite with channels carved

I moved closer and got a nose full of rot and

smelled like old

fuck were the Reeds doing down here ? Archer

rippled with cold energy

pulse of a frozen

that ? the beta growled

prickled

quietly

looking for pages torn from that journal

to the journal were written

my instincts were screaming at me to turn and run , we couldnt

Come on ,

I stepped into

distant whispers and another frozen

, Archer replied

is wrong ,

know you

It doesnt matter .

to search

into with this , but they need those damn pages

a second later , he

, but the feeling of being watched wouldnt go away

to ignore it

I

pulse of cold magic

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