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Angelina’s POV

I race towards my room and barely have time to shut the door behind me before I collapse against the wall opposite it, Lucas’s words gutting my heart to shreds, my sobs tearing me apart as they repeat through my mind in an endless loop.

‘You had everything to do with what fucking happened! It all happened to get you across the border, to smuggle you through our town without anyone knowing’

Zade killed three people, three people that brought light and joy into this house. Three people that took everything good with them and left this family in ruins behind them.

And it all happened because of me, because of my existence.

It all happened to allow Zade to claim me like I was a stolen item.

Not in a million years did I envision myself causing someone any kind of pain. Even though I carry my father’s genes in me, a fact that makes my skin crawl and my blood to boil in my veins every time I think about it, I always believed it in my heart that my mother’s genes are the more d