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11: The condition

Author: Realistic
last update publish date: 2026-03-27 21:40:37

Damian

When Dad announced that bombshell, I went completely still. Every single nerve in my body settled… not in a calming, peaceful way, but in that sharp, unsettling, ‘I never imagined it would turn out like this’ kind of way.

Truthfully, I had always known something of this nature would eventually happen. A time would come when Darkshade would finally be split into two again, just like it originally had been from the very beginning, long before Dad made the decision to merge both territories
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