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After the body
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2026-05-22 20:26:10
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Marked By Two What Maeve wanted
Maeve never liked silence because silence meant thinking. And thinking usually led to ugly things she spent years trying not to feel.Regret. Jealousy. Humiliation.The luxury apartment overlooking the city should have felt calming. Expensive marble floors. Soft music drifting through hidden speakers. Rain tapping lightly against the windows.Instead, Maeve stood near the balcony with a cigarette between her fingers watching dawn slowly bleed across the skyline while her stomach twisted harder with every passing hour.Max was dead.That wasn’t supposed to happen.Behind her, Ryan paced the living room restlessly.“You said nobody was supposed to die.”Maeve closed her eyes briefly.God.Ryan was becoming exhausting.“You need to calm down.”“How the hell am I supposed to calm down?” he snapped. “They said Max got shot trying to protect her!”Maeve turned slowly toward him.Ryan looked terrible. Pale. Panicked. Angry in the pathetic kind of way men became when reality finally stopped
Marked By Two Blood between them
Aria’s POVThe bracelet kept burning against my skin, just enough to make me constantly aware of it wrapped around my wrist like something alive.I sat curled against the motel bed staring at the wall while sunrise slowly crawled through the dirty curtains.Max was dead.Every few minutes my brain repeated the sentence again like maybe eventually it would start feeling real.A sharp knock suddenly hit the motel door. My entire body tensed instantly.“Noah, I swear to God—”“It’s not Noah.”Cassian.I froze.Then slowly stood and opened the door.Cassian looked awful.No whiskey. Which honestly frightened me more.Dark circles bruised beneath his eyes, his hair messy like he’d been dragging his hands through it for hours. He stepped inside before I could speak and shut the door quietly behind him.For a second neither of us spoke.Then he looked at me carefully and muttered, “You look terrible.”I laughed weakly. “You too.”His gaze drifted briefly toward the bloodstained sleeve of my
Marked By Two After the body
Aria’s POVI couldn’t get the blood off my hands. Hours later and it was still there.Dried into the cracks of my skin. Beneath my nails. Burned into me so deeply it felt permanent.The motel bathroom sink ran cold water endlessly while I scrubbed harder until my knuckles turned raw, but every time I looked down I still saw him bleeding out against that warehouse wall.“You always leave badly.”I shut the water off violently and gripped the sink harder.My reflection looked unfamiliar now.Pale. Hollow.There was dried blood near my jawline I hadn’t noticed before. Probably his.My chest tightened so hard it hurt to breathe.Max was dead.The sentence still didn’t feel real.A weak sound escaped my throat before I pressed both hands against my mouth immediately.No.If I started crying again, I wasn’t sure I would stop.The motel room behind me remained dark and silent except for the old ceiling fan clicking softly overhead. I barely remembered how I got here.After the shooting, ever
Marked By Two The morning he died
Aria’s POVThe city looked different before sunrise and empty in a way that made every decision feel irreversible.I sat in the back of the taxi gripping my coat tightly around myself while streetlights blurred past the window in streaks of gold and gray. The note rested inside my pocket beside the bracelet, both of them feeling heavier with every passing minute.And somehow they had been enough to drag me out into the dark like a desperate child chasing ghosts.The abandoned building stood near the edge of the old industrial district across the city, surrounded by empty warehouses and rusted gates. The driver looked at me strangely when I asked him to stop there.“You sure?” he asked carefully.No.But I nodded anyway.The taxi disappeared seconds after I stepped onto the empty street, leaving me alone with the sound of distant traffic and the cold morning wind.Every instinct screamed at me to leave. Instead, I walked toward the building.The entrance door hung slightly open already
Marked By Two The message
Cassian’s POVI found Noah exactly where I expected him to be.The east study of course.Because apparently every emotionally constipated man in this family liked brooding alone in dark rooms pretending silence counted as self-control.The door was already half open when I walked in with a whiskey bottle hanging loosely from my hand.Noah looked up from the desk instantly.His expression hardened the second he saw me. “What do you want?”I shut the door behind me slowly.“Oh, nothing dramatic,” I drawled. “Just answers about the terrifying conspiracy living inside our walls.”Noah looked exhausted already. Good.“You’re drunk.”“You’re avoiding the question.”I moved further into the room without invitation and dropped into the chair across from him.“You wanna tell me why random guards are whispering about Aria remembering things in underground tunnels at four in the morning?”That got his attention immediately.His jaw tightened. “You were listening?”“No,” I replied dryly. “I devel
Marked By Two The Hunt
Aria’s POVI didn’t sleep after the ballroom.I tried.God, I tried.But every time I closed my eyes, I saw the Grand Luna sitting beneath the moonlight whispering the same sentence over and over again.Your mother begged us not to let you remember.The words hollowed something out inside me.By three in the morning, the estate felt dead silent again. I sat curled against the window seat in my old bedroom with the bracelet wrapped tightly around my wrist, staring out at the dark gardens below while my thoughts tore themselves apart.Nothing made sense anymore.I kept asking myself the same horrible question:What if they weren’t hiding me because they hated me?What if they were hiding me because they were afraid?A cold chill crawled down my spine. I stood abruptly and started pacing the room.“No,” I whispered to myself.No.I refused to become one of those weak terrified girls trapped inside their own head.I needed air.I moved toward the door quietly and stepped into the hallway
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