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Dryas
Fuck.
I see pretty little Rue’s head disappear as she’s forced into the backseat of the black sedan. This complicates things by an order of magnitude. She wasn’t supposed to get in the middle of things, but here she is. Landing squat between myself and Derrik.
It was my intention to fly to Liechtenstein, to find Derrik in his lair and drag him out by the hair. To punish him, not just for killing Aurelia, but for deflowering Rue.
The look in her tear-filled eyes as she admitted to me that he had her first… the broken sound of her one-word admission… it cut me to the quick.
Derrik must have heard me wishing to slit his throat, though. Because as I was preparing to head out to the airport, he walked right by the window of the shop I was in, distracted by talking on the phone. O
