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The Aftermath

Author: Tari Melati
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-06 22:53:05

AUTUMN'S POV

We remained quiet until Dominic arrived a few minutes later.

“Is everyone dead out there?” I asked hastily, but Dominic’s attention wasn’t on me.

He was focused on Dante.

Something passed between them. Maybe a secret code or message, but I couldn’t tell. I wasn’t part of it.

Then they walked to the corner of the room to have a conversation, and that pissed me off. I followed stubbornly.

“Give us a moment, Autumn,” Dante told me, sounding as though he was passing a strict warning to a belligerent child.

I wasn’t having it.

“Why?” I asked, placing my hands on my hips and demanding for an answer.

I was still shaken, and I couldn’t get the vision of what just happened out of my head. Before now, I only thought that these kind of things happened only in the movies, but clearly, I had been wrong.

Since I took that flight and came down here, everything had changed.

This was a different world, and with everything I had experienced since I was forced into this world of blood, ven
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