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"Forget it" Dropping o But you should know I caive you a piece of ree to spend ive you what you wanted Despite what I said--I did want you I felt the same pull"

His back rippled with tension The air seeret and self-loathing For a rabthe air fro out to be replaced with utter coldness "I don’t care I never wish to see you again"

Fuck hi around, I stalked to the door My anger crashed over ave him my passion and offered a lifeline, and he threw it in my face

The ain I wouldn’t be able to stand it I needed to ain, Fox If I see, or hear, or find out you’ve come near, I won’t just hurt you

"I’ll kill you"

Chapter 10

The day I cos happened They tattooed hest operative, and I was informed of iant manor; I’d been told what to eat, told who to kill, and when to speak I lived in the same black clothes all the recruits lived in I followed the code

Then they told me who I’d been before they stole me on my sixth birthday

I wasn’t a pauper or a bum off the street like soeneric family

Oh, no

Turned out, I enty-fourth in line to the throne My ancestors had been kings and queens;and respected

They told me I was to inherit a multi-million dollar fortune of property, jewellery, and cash

My real name was Roan Averin, but none of that mattered

It didn’t er existed because I’d killed every last person from my bloodline No one kneas alive No one knew I existed

There was no one left

Just ed to them

"I’ll kill you"

"Do it or I’ll kill you"

"Obey or I’ll kill you"

"Slaughter them or I’ll kill you"

"Kill and sever and decapitate or I’ll kill you"

The threat resonated incomment threaded with my past "I’ll kill you"

The s me head first into darkness My brain sith memories of my faceless handlers All I saaterfalls of red and slicing blades through flesh

The urges sucked er lived that life I was theirs A nobody with no feelings or hopes or drea with Zel thanks to the pain in aveher perception, her correct guesses all the while saving her fro pole My blood raced to take her again--to make promises--to swear I could do better To proh to touch her sweetly But the pain wasn’t enough and every lash of her voicemy past

I screaone forever so I never had to worry about haruaranteed to hurl roaned as the roo me from safety to horror The aliveness into kill her, and I could no longer ignore the call The conditioning was too strong, too ingrained, too deep to reject

The rules I’d beenwith an insane headache She was a weakness She was an enemy She knew tooso hard, and I howled like the wolves who’d kept hts The last of my humanity filtered away I was about to kill the only person whome

And I couldn’t stop it

Icy cold obedience flowed inmy past and secrets from my broken corpse She had the audacity to say she could fix hly trained Ghost She had to go

Soon, she wouldn’t be a threat Soon, she’d be dead

She screarabbed her from the door and shoved her face first into the carpet

My knees slaainst the floor on either side of her body; my hands wrapped around her throat The unprotected muscles of her neck were an aphrodisiac to my need to obey My need to kill