When the Family 210

Chapter 210 A Strange Feeling

Carl walked swiftly down the corridor.”

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The crisp night air filtered in through the ornate, vintage windows, brushing across his face and helping to cool the strange heat still lingering in his blood.

His steps came to a halt.

He looked up instinctively, catching sight of the full moon bathed in silvery frost.

He’d thought–long ago–that he was beyond the reach of emotions like this.

He should have been.

Years of ruthless self–discipline had honed him into something cold, distant, precise. A machine, void of sentiment.

And yet… something had slipped. A cog in the machine had turned the wrong way, and emotions had begun spinning wildly, out of his control.

Jean had eyes like clear glass, like a mirror. As if she could see right into him.

When he looked into her eyes, it felt like someone was quietly brushing the dust from his soul.

That strange feeling had taken root from that moment on–spreading from his chest like fire over dry grass.

And it was difficult to describe, this sensation…

word for it. He

Maybe-

of being seen with warmth and sincerity by family. A feeling that soothed the unrest in his heart and gave rise to

Family…

was his sister,

His blood–related sister.

Jean, meanwhile, was calm.

cold words to heart. Instead, she moved quickly

she sifted through her

threat” discussed at today’s Abyssal Choir meeting… would turn out

organization had delivered their warning

Tue, 6 May

A Strange

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noticed by the Secret Service–and at such

It sounded almost unreal.

they were a fledgling group. If the

Abyssal Choir survived this early threat? How had it grown

Something must have happened…

drifted through the

think of it, had anyone else from the Abyssal

She doubted it.

there had been, Queenie would’ve made them all face interrogation together–forced them to turn on one another. That was

fixed on

the sole

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