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still open, but I could see the tiss

s hugging each other scared. Seeing no reaction from the body, I stood up and kick

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aybe synthetic enhancers?" His voice always had that hopeful, bouncy rhythm in it.

an obvious but faint imprint on a brick like a handprint. It didn't look like that of a human, because it wa

nto the front of my phon

"Are you out of your damn mind? This isn't a time to

itting me...it hurt

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to cover it. This w

again. Something's off. And not just

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now! Obviously. Just... never mind." He laugh

wanted to hug him so bad. I snapped myself out of my thoughts quickly. T

ams," I said, kneeling

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ed to walk back tow

t going back to the body because it actually had a scent. I couldn't describe it ex

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saw something. Near the edge of the alley wall, beneath a crumpled cardboard box, something gleamed faint

a circle of gold. I had seen it before...somewhere...but where? Nothing clicked in

that corporation wore it. He was even famous for it. His executives had grey wol

ien Kael."

had politicians under his control. He was basically untouchable and adored

s straight. Yet somehow he was always near the ugliest events, murders an

y that shouldn't heal. I stood frozen in t

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sad. "You don't have to figure it out

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s connections came up again... his VIP clubs, hotels elite parties, places you didn't enter

its silence. It was a place where secrets got buried

his cufflink nea

mind me of something warm...nice

ub Umbra. I needed to find a way to get in and find proof to put that beast

path about to carry ou

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