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THIRTY-SEVEN

Last Resort

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Samantha pov

What?" I stammered.

Dracul's words felt like a punch to the gut. I had expected him to feel frustrated. I had expected anger. But I was not expecting this.

I wasn't expecting this loss of trust, this coldness from him.

You heard me." He said quietly.

There was a heaviness in the way he spoke, a weight to his words that I had not heard before