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plies, I sleep through the entire afternoon

a dark, airle

eaden weight of em

ccord, picking up my secur

with an anonymous messa

find a high-resolutio

ith Lyla leaning against his chest,

next to them, their faces arranged in th

wn to the a

ly has his true son. His mother even praised our harmo

e hierarchy was com

d given safe harb

al laugh that dies withou

ly fall, hot and

y the mindless comfort of routine

net and take out my bott

capsules in

I discern a slight discrepancy, a co

spent in the mafia underg

red access to my persona

d I collapse onto th

the man who swore a blood oath to protect

-the dark blood seeping from his chest

of the stone seeping into my

waking purgatory, I cal

the bottle

e," I instruct, my voice toneless.

r eyes wide with questions

later, my

Sienna's voi

"They are laced. Someone injected them with black-market hormones desi

n to

s before he left this house finall

instantly annihilated, leaving behind only