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Chapter 28: Blood Oaths and Black Roses

Author: Elian Grey
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-05 00:34:11

Raine

"I should have stopped him."

The words fall from my lips like ash, arid and valueless.

Cassian's hand clamps tighter on mine, blood still dried beneath his fingernails, as we gaze at the spot where Julian's body had just rested and taken away silently. No ritual. No final words.

"He was already dead the moment he walked into that church," Cassian says, voice rough. "Julian knew it."

"But I didn't," I snap out. "I didn't know he'd… God, Cassian. He said she was coming. He said—"

"She is." His voice breaks through me. "And she won't stop until everything we've rebuilt burns."

My heart thunders in my ears. The stillness of the air inside the safe house is heavy with everything unsaid.

I reach into my coat, my trembling hand closing around the bloodied envelope Julian shoved into my palm before he fell.

Cassian tenses. "What is it?"

"I don't know yet."

I rip it open. Inside—a single page. No signature. Just one sentence, scrawled in red ink:

"The child lives."

My stomach twitched.

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