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Chapter 92

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Chapter 92

Lines in the Sand

Dominique’s POV

I didn’t sleep.

Not that I usually did, but that night, sleep didn’t dare come near me. Not when Aurora’s scent still lingered on my bed. Not when her last words were a blade stuck between my ribs.

"You’re scared that if I stay, and this war touches me, you’ll finally lose control. You’ll have to admit you love me."

I stared at the wall as if it could answer the question I refused to ask myself.

Did I love her?

Hell.

Hell.

I stood and yanked open the drawer near my bed. Inside was the file I had Julien compile over the years, names, faces, ghosts from the Peterson syndicate that had never been buried. I spread them across the desk.

Some were crossed out. Some had question marks. One face, Marcos Valez stood out.

A former lieutenant. Cold. Calculating. Missing since the Peterson raid.

He was the second hand man of Victor Peterson, a man who's now more of a ghost than a human being.

If someone was pulling strings from the shadows… it was
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