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was freezing, pierc

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echoed from beyon

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held her

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door behind him

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d knelt before her. His gaze remaine

ed, his voice so soft yet so piercing. "Y

AN UNRELENT

he had just reclaimed the most

d so long for

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as her bigg

was not a man to

ocked behind bars, but in reality, he was still pulling the strings from within. He

ent. Who was around her. Wh

grown too comfortable in her new

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ing his fingers brush gen

away from his touch, even

she spat, fire bu

huckled softly

e murmured, walking in circles a

think you ca

s voice lowering to a whis

're wrong

hed her jaw,

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epped forward again, kn

now but still laced with quiet menace

ut her eye

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nted to

p down,

was no

A PAINFUL

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oulder. Queen Dior stood besi

.." she

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his eyes, ex

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of something he thoug

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to sav

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– A SHATTER

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had

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him the satisfactio

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o survive, she h