Vanessa Several Minutes Earlierhe silver burns against my neck, but I don’t stop staring up at the man I once called father. There’s something different about him, a sense ofindifference that feels wrong. He’s looking at me like he doesn’t even recognize me.Like he didn’t spend two decades raising me as his own. Most males leave the child-rearing to the females, but he often helped with my training as a child, ensuring I was the fastest female of my age. He pushed me, perhaps not kindly, but I am who I am today because of his influence.Yet his expression registers absolutely nothing as he holds the knife to my throat. It’s like he’s frozen there, demanding I stay without evenrequesting it.“Good job, Gafton,” a new voice says, the source of it making my stomach churn. Alpha Kin.He steps into view, his intimidating size immediately making me want to shrink into a corner. It’s also the look in his eyes that has me almost cringing. His fractured irises are blazing with fragments o
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