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Chapter 85: A Father's Warning

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(Damon's POV)

"He's asking for you," my mother said, finding me in the war room where I'd been reviewing border patrol reports, her voice carrying a particular weight that immediately set every instinct on alert. "Now, Damon. Not when you finish what you're doing."

I followed her to my father's room, the particular urgency in her tone telling me everything I needed to know about how serious this moment actually was, regardless of weeks of his declining health finally reaching some critical thre
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