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Chapter 53

-Alex's POV-

Eight years old.

That was the first time the crimson color of blood stained my world. It wasn't a scrape from a fall, a burst lip from a careless tumble. No, this blood flowed freely, painting a gruesome scene etched forever in my memory.

win I wasn't supposed to see it. Tucked away in a forgotten corner of my father's study, hidden amongst towering bookshelves and leather-bound tomes, I became an unwilling witness. The man on the floor wasn't fighting back. There was no struggle, no desperate pleas for mercy. Just a look of utter defeat etched on his face, his eyes wide and vacant, staring sightlessly into the distance.

growl ripped from his throat, a sound primal and terrifying. "Get him out

grabbed the now lifeless body. the man's limbs dangling limply

a strange calmness washed over me. Curiosity, perhaps, or maybe a sense of detachment that

raw anger, echoed as he addressed someone unseen. "Where

the person who I didn't want to find me but right under his nose but even at my age, I understood the term, keep your friends close and my enemies closer. Damon Thome was a man I considered my enemy right from the moment he

his thunderous command failed to elicit a flinch. I knew what awaited me when My father's voice boomed once more, "Find him!" But they did. Training, Moulding. Shaping me into a reflection of his own monstrous being. Anything but that. I was never going to be like him. 1 would be just like her.

into the shadows, a new

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cheeks stood in front of me. I hadn't even realized when she walked up to me,

all over in my head. We walked in silence

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