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Chapter 33

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LEON'S POV

After the call with Rose, I couldn't go back to sleep.

The moonlight was doing a terrible job of illuminating my desk, casting long, skeletal shadows across my manuscript. My fingers were cramped, hovering over the keyboard, but for the first time since I started writing, I couldn't get the words right.

For three years, Damian both as a real person and as the character in my story, had been a collection of golden traits, sunlight in his hair, a soft, warm laugh, a gentle but dominati
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