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The rest… the rest would come later.

Our enemies would fall.

I wouldn’t stop until they were utterly decimated.

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~Caleb~

A roar sounded, jolting me awake.

“Just fucking do it, Dante. Get the damn thing out.”

“It’s in deep. Let’s wait until the morphine kicks in.”

“Just dig it out now.”

“Caspian—”

“Fuck! We almost had him!”

“It wasn’t worth your life.”

“Debatable.”

“It’s absolutely not. I don’t want to ever hear you say anything like that again. Jesus Christ, Caspian, running into the line of fire like that—repeatedly.”

“All that mattered was bringing Caleb back to us.”

“You don’t have the luxury of seeing things that way. It’s not that simple.”

“It is when it comes to his loves,” another very familiar voice spoke.

From right beside me.

I jolted as I suddenly became aware of hands on me, someone pressed up against me.

“It’s all right. It’s not him. You’re safe now, brother. You’re safe.”

I strained, searching my currently muddled head. “Ash?”

“Yes, it’s me. I’m just getting these cuffs off you then you won’t be touched until the doctor treats you back at King Manor. Just give me a few moments.”

“I don’t… how are you… why are you… here?”

“To bring you back to your loved ones. Just like you brought me back to mine.”

“He… Cas called you?”

I felt a weight being lifted from my wrists.

“We’ll talk about it later. Just rest now, brother.”

“Cas… Cas, are you okay?”

“Fine, of course. Everything is well. We’re on our way back to the manor now.”

I thought for a moment, trying to put things together, which was proving really difficult right now. Whatever was flooding my system, it packed on hell of a punch and it was doing a real number on me.

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