CAISEN VALENTINE'S POVI lowered my voice again, staring down at the floor."When I was eighteen, I ran.""I'd had enough. Enough of blood and screams and power games. I escaped through the tunnels under the old brothel compound. Grayson had just come back into my life — He took me in, trained me. When I showed up at their door, I was filthy, starving, half-dead. And still Edward didn't stop hunting me."I looked up at Conrad, and something twisted in my chest."He used to say, 'No matter how far you run, Caisen, you'll never escape me. You are me. You can hide your name, change your face, but you can't scrub off your blood. And one day, you'll come back. Because monsters like us don't get to live clean lives.'"I exhaled. A deep, shaky breath."I didn't want to become like him, Conrad." "But somewhere along the way — I did."My voice cracked then. The words fell like glass."I let you suffer in silence. I walked past you in that hellhole and did nothing. I saw you on those cameras,
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