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Azriel The moment I saw those creatures closing in on us, I knew the only way to get away was to kill them. But the thought of how Seraphina had reacted to me killing back at Vane's made me pause. There was no way she would have been able to handle that much bloodshed. So I'd waited until she was gone before I lunged at them, slitting their throats as fast as I could. Some of them tried to run toward her, but I slammed them back and ripped their heads off. "She isn't yours!" I roared, driving my knife through the eye of a drooling, ragged man. When I finally retracted my hands from the neck of the last one of them, her body dropping with a thud, I didn't even waste another breath. I immediately ran in the direction Seraphina had gone. "Seraphina!" I called out, my voice rough and ra
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