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Chapter 55: The Mark He Gave Me

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Dax’s POV

I had a sword in my hand and no idea what to do with it.

Rico stood in the center of the cavern with his fingers around my sister’s throat, her feet barely touching the stone. His eyes had gone pure white. Black veins crawled up his face like cracks in a mirror, and the thing wearing him smiled a smile that did not belong to him.

“Don’t,” Elara rasped. “Dax. Don’t.”

“He’s going to kill you.”

“He’s not.” She was clawing at the black h
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