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Chapter 17

Author: Echo
(Gavin's Perspective)

Gavin returned to New York, a walking corpse, a soul-sucked shell. His ribs were still broken, but he couldn't feel the pain. The hole in his heart was too vast, too cold.

Nonna looked at her ruined son, a flicker of something hard in her old eyes.

"Gavin, a Whitestone man never gives up," the old woman said, leaning on her cane. From a locked ebony box, she took out a small glass vial.

Inside was a shimmering blue liquid.

"This is the old Sicilian way," her voice was a witch's rasp. "An ancient neurotoxin, mixed with a powerful aphrodisiac. A few drops, and she will lose all will to resist. She will become compliant, desperate. Get her pregnant with a Whitestone heir, and motherhood will be her chain. All women are the same. A child is a leash."

Gavin stared at the vial, a war raging inside him.

This was low. This was rape. This was the final desecration of what he called love.

"No… I can't do that to her…" Gavin clutched his head in agony.

"Then you'll just watc
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