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49. Hidden identity
The thought of drinking blood again had my emotions mixed with excitement and disgust, I had grown up living a lie, being denied what I needed to let my monster, how much had Maddox really known about me. Did he know that keeping me away from everything would keep me subdued, until recently I had never felt anything so dark.
Probably, he was an asshole Ashley and if I wasn’t subdued, there was no way he would have been alive.
I feel my body being lowered until it met something soft and firm “Just let her sleep, she most likely needs it after hardly sleeping last night”
“You know”
“Of course I know, she is my mate. She was tossing and turning all night. She still lives with what Maddox and Hayden did to her. I don’t think she will ever move on” I hear him sigh as he tucks a strand of hair behind my ear “I hoped that after Hayden’s death she would settle but with everything going on, she s
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