Baylor's POVThe smell hit me before the sight did... that sharp, heavy tang of copper coating the back of my throat, like dirty old coins. I stopped dead in the open doorway. Ariana crashed into my back with a soft grunt of confusion, but I couldn't move. I couldn't force a single breath into my paralyzed lungs.My boots felt glued to the floorboards.Corvan lay sprawled across the center of the dark study, his neck twisted at an impossible angle, his glassy eyes staring blankly up at the crystal chandelier. Beside the mahogany desk, his escort was a crumpled, broken pile on the floor. There was blood everywhere... soaked deep into the Persian rug, ruining the floral patterns I used to trace with my fingers as a kid.I always used to tell my father the rug was ugly. Drenched in gore, it didn't improve.I swallowed hard against the bile rising in my throat and dragged my gaze up from the bodies.My father stood dead center of the massacre, his chest heaving with jagged breaths, his kn
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