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The Blood Between Us

Author: Monellawrites
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-09 20:27:29

Gina

The house felt like a grave. Not because anyone had died, though maybe, in pieces, we had, but because of the silence. It was the kind that made your throat tight, your lungs shallow. The kind that made you afraid to move too loudly, as if the walls might wake and ask questions you couldn’t answer.

I woke before dawn. The light slipped through the curtains like a blade, thin and silver, cutting across the floorboards. I thought about hiding under the blanket, letting the dark pretend I didn’t exist. But pretending was what got us here, the lies, the quiet, the way no one ever said what they meant.

Downstairs, voices. Faint. Sharp around the edges.

I crept to the top of the staircase, my palms cold against the railing.

“…you’re not going, Mina,” Aria’s voice. Calm, clipped. Like authority disguised as reason.

Then Mina, brittle, shaking. “She’s still our mother, Aria. You think I can just forget she exists?”

“She’s under confinement,” Aria said. “Kol’s orders. No one visits withou
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