I didn't open the box.I sat in my quarters for three hours, staring at it. The weight of three centuries of secrets pressed against my chest. Every truth Brian had hidden. Every lie he had told. Every piece of his history that would finally make sense.All I had to do was lift the lid.But something stopped me.Not loyalty. Not love. Something harder to name.The knowledge that once I read those documents, I couldn't unread them. That the choice to know was a choice to be changed. That Ilona had offered me exactly what I wanted—and that was reason enough to be suspicious.A knock at the door.I didn't move."Argentum." Viktor's voice. "May I enter?"He looked different here.In the compound, under the blood moon, Viktor had been a threat. A grieving brother demanding justice. A vampire prince with leverage and rage.Here, in his own territory, he was something else.Comfortable. Unhurried. The kind of predator who didn't need to prove himself because everyone already knew what he was
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