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Axle's PoV
The city loomed before me, a panoramic and stunning view of New York that had been the sole reason of setting my headquarters in this very building. It was a view that had been hard to see overseas and harder so during my childhood spent in the underbelly of the city in the midst of the darkness of the back alleys.
It was a view that would calm me on most days, settling the surge of demons within me that haunted me every single night when I closed my eyes. It was a brutal reality that I had come to accept, letting the dark claws reach out and grab hold of me.
But the warmth of her touch and closeness of her body had changed that....one night of peace that had simply been too good to be true...and hours later, a beautiful dream had become a devastating reality that had pr
