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The Father's Sacrifice

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Damien

The red fire in my left shoulder never existed. The blood dripped off my elbow, and pooling on the cold concrete existed neither.

There was only the sound of my son calling me Daddy for the first time since I've known him.

"Hold on, Noah," I whispered, my voice low, steady, cutting straight through the shrill screaming of the security sirens outside.

Fray didn't hesitate. He raised the pistol three inches, aiming directly for the bridge of my nose, his thumb pulling back the hea
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