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CHAPTER 54: THE BURIAL

作者: Janice Mark
last update 最終更新日: 2025-12-31 16:03:26

KNOX’S POV

The sky hung heavy and grey above us, it seemed like it was going to rain but nothing happened. Everything was just cold and grey.

Melissa’s casket sat beside a hole in the ground at the cemetery where the club buried its dead. With simple pines and no flowers. No ceremony. Just a box and a grave and silence.

This was what betrayal earned you. A hole in the ground and people who couldn’t wait to forget you existed.

I stood at the back of the gathered Vipers, my arm around Elara’s sho
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