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Chapter 92
Aster:
Her heart beating wildly, Aster stepped past the treeline and into the clearing. Cyrus gasped and took several steps backwards, looking around wildly as if trying to find an escape. “There you are,” the witch said, her tone sweet.
“Here I am,” Aster said, resisting the urge to look back to her family.
Smiling broadly, the witch started walking towards her, twirling a blade of grass between her fingers.
Aster didn’t move, she was hyper-focused on Cyrus. God, how she hated that man. “Why are you afraid of me?” she asked him. “Am I not what you wanted?” She cocked her head, giving him her sweetest smile. “You killed my mother, almost killed me, because you wanted one like me. Well, here I am.”
“He’s weak. A coward,” the witch said. “All men are at their core, even vampire men.”
Not mine, Aster thought with a smile. Just thinking about them filled her with so much love that she thought she would burst wide
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