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CHAPTER 73: THE NIGHT OF THE LONG SHADOWS

Auteur: Anointing Unity
last update Date de publication: 2026-04-24 16:14:09

The headlights were moving slowly towards us. They looked like two eyes in the dark. They cut through the purple fog on the valley floor. I stood on the terrace. My fingers were wrapped tightly around the stone railing. The stone felt cold. My skin felt cold too.. I didn't move. I needed to feel connected to something.

Stephen was standing behind me. He was breathing slowly and quietly. He wasn't the man I had met before. The man who lived in the shadows and always acted fast. Now he was a man.
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