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Chapter 183 – The Reveal

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Alexei

I wake up to the sensation of being poked in the ribs.

"Wake up you lummox," a voice commands. "You’re hogging the blankets."

I groan, cracking one eye open. The room is dim, the heavy curtains still drawn against the morning sun, but I can make out Kieran sitting up beside me. He looks disheveled, his hair is sticking up in six different directions, his lips are still swollen from all the kissing we did, and there’s a bruise blooming on his neck where I bit him.

He looks magnificent.

"Five more minutes," I mumble, reaching for him. "Come back down here. It’s warm."

"It’s not warm for everyone, because you took all the blankets and rolled yourself into a cocoon," Kieran says, batting my hand away.

"It’s well past dawn, I have to get up. My terrifying competence is driving Vorlag crazy, I can’t let up now."

He rubs his face with his hands, then freezes. He lowers his hands slowly, looking at me with a sudden, sharp intensity.

"The prisoners," he says.

I blink, waking up a littl
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