Beyond Death: The Ruthless Don's Eternal Obsession

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unced, his voice a cold pronouncement that struck the stone walls

boy who had once sworn to give me his entire world was going to

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, my knuckles straining w

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r, dressed in designer silk,

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the betrayal a more profound v

creaming match had shattered

ottle, and it had met my skull

esperate for the one person

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se my father's d

sed his dependents without cause could be exe

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or a trace of the boy who used to snea

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led out a steri

onto the de

ive slap that seemed to suck a

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purred, stepping over my legs

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round the corner, and the silence he left in his wa

rom the doorway, his face a mask of bore

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