The Hunter

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hun

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was

know where t

he feel s

ming from the fire flickering in the hearth. Dozens of open files were scatte

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had

how much she had h

't stop w

him more than

e balcony of her penthouse suite,

k robe, and goosebumps rose alon

felt anythi

had been

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was cru

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nd herself, a deep, gnawing

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started bein

erself for

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, broken thing inside her

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en k

r in th

once whispered

t you foreve

r eyes shut, furi

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reux had k

ver allow hersel

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s even the governmen

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s nothing if

the third night,

his office with

ly, "we found someon

rt slammed i

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itated. "Yo

e Damian had willingly

and after the scandal broke - after the wo

d been glad t

no

needed

d just before sunset. Damian stepped out, h

rrace overlooking the ocean, a glass of wh

le was sharp

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t bother wit

" he said harshl

s smile

ling the whiskey lazily. "But t

s blood

d chu

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k a step, the world

o

uldn'

le was

died in

ad destroyed he

ing the wrong people, by turning

hrough Damian

lying,"

d shr

really look into her eyes, son... y

t harder tha

eep inside, a v

dy know i

hrough her next phase wi

her

in Blackwood

sper in the

s unst

ucha

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t, picking at a croissant she had no intenti

ds echoed

sy, Belle. Obsess

ed down at

ere sh

ome the villain

ss blanketed

time in a long t

estroyed

destroy he

rom the island br

bel

bel

was Ar

had loved

from the ashes... and c

anted to fall to his knees

his arms and neve

be

e ne

as that he ha

ch

she could

as already

pped out of her penthouse

ver with mist, the streets gliste

d to clea

in

r who s

ho had loved D

dreamed about him when

to since before everything had fallen apart - and sa

o the sky, letting the col

hadn't mea

hated he

where Damia

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e

ner

acked open a

and careful, like appr

he said

around - her eyes wide

, she forgot

be Belle

he was Arabell

once trusted hi

oat tightene

," he w

e fr

between them - the love, the betrayal, the anger, the

" Damian said,

ed her mou

words

s trem

was

a step

k a ste

them was both unbea

as if to touch her,

slapped hi

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er

ok

u," she choked o

like she'd hit h

said, the pain raw in his

ed with sobs she r

attered," she said cold

tered somethin

t of her, uncaring of the mud,

me," he w

him, her heart brea

med of this

hat it wa

ing like sh

as w

r still wanted to

nted to

d to be Ara

he co

woul

she turn

didn't

hing her walk away, feeling the

Be

ed into th

on

t vict

t

mist, she didn't see the shado

igu

le

it

o knew her

ed revenge even

oved closer, the ga

t the only hunter i

e was hunti