Page 146 of Scarred in Silence

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“I did a lot of things,” he says, voice soft and poisonous. “But the worst is still coming. You thought Miles was the monster?”

The call ends.

I drop the phone. It bounces once on the deck.

Behind me, Lucien’s voice is distant, muffled, like it is underwater.

“Astra?”

But I can’t turn around.

Because my hands are shaking.

Because Damien is alive.

Because Harmony is with him.

And because this time… we’re not going to survive him.

Harmony will never survive him…

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