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KILLIAN
Nightmares featuring Lavinia riddled my sleep. They were random sequences from my past merged with everyday things—like swimming in a lake, leaving a nightclub, or driving my old MacLaren. However, each subconscious story ended with her dead or gone, and me alone in the darkness.
Despite my agitated sleep, I felt better when I woke up later that evening. Now I just needed to go hunting and I would be ready to bring down the world in order to rescue Lavinia.
I felt defeated and hopeless as I went to my bedroom. My room wasn’t the same from twenty years ago. Back then, I was one more soldier in Lord Reynard’s army and my room had been located with the other soldiers in the common wing of the castle. Lord Drake had given me one of the large chambers in the royal wing, near his o
