Bonds of the Alpha Billionaire (Maya and Alex)

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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.

chest heaving, claws dripping with a crimson stain that mirrored the spreading pool beneath the man's body. A guttural growl ripped from his throat, a sound primal and terrifying. "Get him out of my sight!" he commanded, his voice a low

gloom. Without a word, they grabbed the now lifeless body. the man's limbs

hiding place, a strange calmness washed over me. Curiosity, perhaps,

still laced with raw anger, echoed as he addressed someone unseen.

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 laid his hand on her.

"Find him!" But they did. Training, Moulding. Shaping me into a reflection of his own

rose to melt back into the shadows, a new

my m

Chapter 53

dazzling smile and a blush creeping up her cheeks stood in front of me. I hadn't

in my head. We walked