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DAMIAN

I pace the breadth of my bedroom for reasons unknown to me. A look at the balcony tells me that dawn is near.

I haven't slept a wink all night.

My brain chooses to replay Alice's warning. “You will have yourself to blame if anything happens to that poor girl. Have you no conscience anymore? This isn't how I raised you to be, Kristoffor Damien Kastorov