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Chapter 82

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Fire in the Streets

Jace's POV

It's been three painful days now, and Lucian hasn't come to get me. The delay is agonizing, but the things I see every day from the lonely cathedral window are worse.

The city of Barcelona has become a center of violence,gang war, blood, and the senseless deaths of innocent people,the city is in total chaos.

The streets are a constant state of chaos, people running helter-skelter, fleeing the war, brutal clashes that tear the city apart every single day.

Lucian's men and Alexander's men are clashing with no regard for life. Gangs from all the nooks and crannies of the state have joined forces or have been forced to take sides in a conflict that isn't their own.

Yet, here I remain,the prize, the root of all this suffering,the "gem" that has been searched for,locked away in a lonely room within a forgotten cathedral.

I remember when I was a boy, I used to feel the church was the safest place on earth, a holy sanctuary. But now, I realize that no plac
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