XANDERThe gun went off.The sound split the air like a crack of thunder, sharp and violent. For a heartbeat, silence followed—heavy, unnatural. Then he whispered her name, barely audible.“Tati…ana.”His eyes tracked the spreading red stain on her dress. She stumbled backward, her expression a flicker of shock and pain, and then she collapsed onto the floor.Xander took a step forward—just one—but then when he saw it,the blood, dark and vivid against the pale fabric.Something inside him lurched. The world tilted, the sound around him muffled as if someone had clamped invisible hands over his ears.The sight of blood didn’t just freeze him—it pulled him.Pulled him back.His surroundings dissolved. The marble floor, the chandeliers, Tatiana’s falling body—they all bled away into darkness, until he was standing in the front yard of a house he had only seen three days ago after seventeen years.Their old house.The air was humid, thick with silence. He was small—his hands, his feet, e
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