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CHAPTER NINETY-EIGHT

Author: Iris Brown
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-31 20:35:54

Xiomar’s POV

The house was dead silent when we pulled up the long drive, the three of us climbing out of the car like ghosts come back to haunt our own grave. Our house, our ruin. The once-pristine mansion stood broken and scarred, pieces of the walls caved in, scorch marks licking the stone like charred memories. The grounds smelled of ash and oil, and the air felt heavier than before. We had done this with our own hands, destroyed what was ours to make sure no one else could claim it. And now, standing there after a month in the shadows, it looked like the corpse of something we had once been proud of.

Emilio whistled low, hands shoved deep into his leather jacket pockets. “Fuck, we really did a number on her.”

Achilles didn’t answer, just lit a cigarette and exhaled slowly. His eyes scanned the ruins like he was carving them into his mind, his jaw hard. He wasn’t mourning. It wasn’t in his nature, but he was measuring what had been taken, what had been lost, what had been reborn in
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