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Author: Hewrite
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-11-17 10:41:49

POISONED ROOTS 1

{Playlist: "Monster" by Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber}

~KADE POV~

The drive to my father's mansion felt like moving through water. Everything is slow, shapeless, wrong. My knuckles throbbed where I had split them on the steering wheel, blood dried dark against my skin. I didn't bother cleaning it.

The pain was good. Real. Something to focus on besides the howling rage building in my chest.

Kolt was home.

I had gotten the text from Knox an hour ago, simple and unsuspecting: "Dad wants family dinner tonight. Kolt's back from Tokyo. 7pm sharp."

Perfect timing. Almost too perfect.

The gates opened automatically when my car approached, recognizing the vehicle registration. I drove up the long driveway lined with manicured hedges and imported stone, past the fountain that cost more than most people's houses, past the garage that held six cars my father barely drove.

Everything about this place screamed money. Power. Untouchability.

And underneath all that marble and gold,
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