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Chapter 17: One Word

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“Tell me, Lucius, why are you loyal to Diaz?”

“Because I love him,” Lucius answers as if it was the only logical response. “He is my dearest friend. He has helped me so many times I wouldn’t be able to count them. I might be younger than him but I have the need to protect him, to shield him from any danger and do everything in my power to make him happy.”

Althea’s mouth is dry.

She never imagined how brutal words can be, yet, here she is. Being repeatedly punched while any hope warming her heart is being annihilated.

“Even if it means...” She purposefully doesn’t finish the sentence, letting the question hang over Lucius.

“No, no,” answers the raven.

For a split second Althea lets herself claw to her fading hope. Deep down she knows but still, she wants to believe her anchor, her saviour, is on her side.

She doesn’t want to let her light go.

“Althea, Diaz breaking you is only his way to love you, to heal you into a better version of yo
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