Loathed Bond, Irrefutable Destiny!

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were unfamiliar but I recognized danger before I even saw it. Quickly

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on of the ballroom. I slipped across the wide, spacious room where my fathe

om, Your Highness.

firmly traced two fingers across my mother's face down to her shoulders, p

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ency. Invited guests had admired the portrait of my mother, some had touched it, but it was always a delicate, mindless trail. I joi

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girl, for now at least. We turned a corner, and my sprint was still on, though I was getting t

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