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she'd fina

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. Rudolf didn't even acknowledge them. He stormed down the torch-lit corridor, past

ike a ghost

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piral staircase. Carved stone. Black furs. A fir

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. His voice was gravel and thunder, y

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when he ste

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f his body. Could smell the faint

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what would hap

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girl with

wrist that now tied her to a wo

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still red.

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