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Cade Returns
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2026-07-02 11:32:00I saw him in the hallway. I had come downstairs at night for water because I couldn't sleep and the house was quiet and I was trying not to think about the attack or the vision or Soren's face when the woman with my face had looked at him. I turned the corner into the kitchen and there was a man sitting at the kitchen table that I had never seen inside this house before.
He looked up the same second I saw him.And I knew.I didn't know how I knew. My vampire side ha
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