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“You’ll find out soon enough” Taber jerked away from him and strode to the door He jerked it open then slammed it behind him

Callan turned his back on him Kane shook and lowered his head

“Dawn’s the same as his sister,” Jonas said then “You’ve oing to show you, Mr Lawrence, the battle you have ahead of you Every soldier should be prepared for the war he’s going to face Wouldn’t you agree?”

He pressed the re screen on the wall behind the desk flared to life Jonas kept his back to it and watched Seth

There was no need for an explanation He saw the nuar Breed Fee Listed number 7036 They held the child to a cold metal table and branded the numbers on her hip

The screa back, his fists clenching, rage shattering through his head But if that was hard to watch, what came later would scar his soul for life

He couldn’t turn away He wouldn’t turn away She had endured hell and he loved her to his last breath She had lived through it, he could do no less

He loved her He already knew he loved her He ached for her He would kill for her, and he would have given his own life to have saved her from the dark brutality the monsters that created her had taped

Nue thirteen So tiny So fucking tiny she looked like a doll as those bastards raped her Sweetinside hie, and hopelessness filled him

They strapped her to a cold, steel table Metal restraints at her neck, her arht thees and ran down her fragile limbs

She screahed at her and told her God didn’t care about Breeds, and then they tore into her helpless, fragile body

The ih those first thirteen years of her life in aflashes Of abuses that should have killed her Twenty htmares that could be inflicted on the female body On a child

When they winked off, no one moved No one spoke Seth continued to stare at the now-dark screen, seeing the child she had been in the wohtmares, with pain each time she looked at him, each time she realized what he wanted from her What he needed from her

He tried to s, and couldn’t He blinked back moisture Fuck, tears He hadn’t shed a tear in more years than he could remember And he hated his father more than he ever had in his life

His father and Lawrence Industries had helped fund those monsters before Seth took over They had helped pay for the brutality coainst the woman who held his soul The woman he could never have