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CHAPTER 123: SURROUNDED BY WAR

Author: Mark A.
last update publish date: 2026-03-27 23:55:28

The wind had teeth that night.

It bit through my skin, through my bones, through whatever strength I still pretended to have left. Each step I took felt like I was walking against something unseen, something that wanted me to turn back, to give up, to collapse into the dirt and let the world swallow me whole.

But I didn’t stop.

I couldn’t.

Because somewhere ahead of me was the man who had taken everything.

And somewhere out there… was my child.

Krager walked beside me, his presence solid, stead
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