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CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Trap He Built

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POV: Damian

My palms were still sweating as I pushed the front door open, the heavy words of Cyrus and Remi echoing inside my skull like a ticking bomb.

If not for the privilege our sister has given you, you would not be standing on this floor.

I stepped into the hallway, expecting the cold emptiness that had lived here for weeks, but the smell of roasted garlic and heavy perfume hit me hard, and I heard my mother laughing in the kitchen.

I walked past the living room and stopped dead at the en
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