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Bastian’s POV
Marcus’s screams were the first thing I heard when we entered his cell.
He had already begun to break.
The scent of burnt flesh, rotting blood, and fear suffocated the air—thick, cloying, drowning. Torches flickered against the damp stone walls, their glow stretching grotesque shadows across his mangled body.
The vampire was barely recognizable.
A living corpse strung up by silver chains, his skin flayed in places where the metal had burned through to muscle. His face was a patchwork of bruises, gashes, and festering wounds, the once-proud warrior reduced to a trembling, convulsing husk.
The wolves had their vengeance. The vampires had theirs. He was the only one they agreed on torturing together.
Vampires beat him for his betrayal in Al
