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Silence Never Existed

Penulis: Bea Baum
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-14 11:21:51

KADE POV

Ajax didn’t die clean.

He didn’t deserve to.

Liam had him dragged into the dungeon beneath Tang Estate — wrists chained, lip split, blood crusted down his neck.

He didn’t fight it. Didn’t need to. He thought he could talk his way out of anything.

“Vex isn’t here to stop me,” I told him.

He laughed.

That was his first mistake.

He thought because Vex was injured, I’d hesitate.

That I’d be the reasonable one. The cleaner.

He was wrong.

⸻

Liam caught Ajax himself — handed him over like a gift, told me and Vex to handle it however we saw fit. But Vex was still recovering, his shoulder stitched and bandaged, his temper held together by painkillers and willpower.

So I went instead.

Ajax didn’t even look scared at first.

He smiled through the split in his lip and said, “Robert promised her to me.”

The words hit harder than the gun ever could.

Promised her.

Brynn.

The same Brynn who’d kissed me less than twenty-four hours before — soft and shaking and wrong in every possible way.

Ajax
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