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Chapter Twenty five — What Runs In The Dark

作者: Souldraft
last update 公開日: 2026-03-19 17:13:06

Damian's POV

Small and quiet as she had requested. Luca driving, Sera in the shotgun, Ava and I in the back with the dark bayou moving past the windows and the property's warmth fading behind us as we pushed deeper into the kind of Louisiana wilderness that existed on maps but belonged, in any meaningful sense, to something older than cartography.

Remy had left directions written on the back of an old receipt in handwriting that suggested he had learned to write from someone who considered legi
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