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Chapter 24

Author: Kjosh
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-10 20:09:56

Draven POV

Lyra's hand remained pressed against her throat, fingers trembling as they traced the marks I'd left behind. She looked smaller somehow, diminished against the wall, and for a fleeting moment something that might have been guilt flickered through me before the rage snuffed it out completely.

"There were complications during the delivery." Her voice was barely above a whisper, each word careful, measured, as if she were navigating a minefield. "The labor went on too long. By the time the child came, it... it wasn't breathing. We tried everything, Draven. I swear we tried everything."

"Everything?" The word exploded from me like a gunshot. I whirled on her, closing the distance again, and she flinched—actually flinched—pressing herself harder against the wall. "Everything would have been following the plan I laid out. Everything would have been keeping that child alive at any cost!"

"We *did* follow the plan!" Lyra's voice cracked, a hint of her own frustration breaking throu
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