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Thicker Than Water

Author: Miss Icecream
last update publish date: 2026-07-25 22:47:26

~MARCUS'S [POV]~

Blood is thicker than water, they say. For most of my life, I lived by that saying, protecting my brother in every way I could. He did the same for me and even more because Demetri had always been willing to cross lines for family, even the ones I would never dare cross.

That was why I could not let him discover what had really happened that night a year ago.

Now that Victor was dead, my secrets should have remained safe with me. He had been the only witness who truly knew what
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