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BORN OF BLOOD AND GRIEF

Author: Vina Kalviné
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-26 02:42:53

"T-t-threnaya," The voice in my head started again as I laid on my bed, staring at the ceiling like I always did, they began with giggles, a wide smile, until it shifted to a bloodied body, and a fuckin traumatic memory.

"W-what happened to her!" I screamed, kneeling by the body of Threnaya, the first and the only woman I was ever going to love.

"What does it look like happened? We killed her," one of my brothers— step brothers answered, staring like I was nothing but a waste that should be disposed off.

"No-no-no, this must be a joke, y-you cannot kill Threnaya, s-she's the only one, the only one who loves me!" I screamed again, raw pain clawing at my throat, then and as cursed, even now, like raw fresh pain, every fucking day.

“She’s gone Azrael, you’re nothing, a bastard, what makes you think you deserve love?” Another one of them said, smiling as tears pooled from the corner of my eyes

I didn’t answer, I couldn’t. My throat felt torn open, my heart barely holding together. I staye
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  • A year to love the devil   AZREAL'S DEMON

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