SEAN
I blinked, reading Care's letter for the millionth time - that stupid letter full of false and idiotic words she had left for me.
I'd returned to our room for a second, just one f*****g second, to get the present I wanted to give her ... and I'd found it.
I don't know how long I'd been there, with that damned piece of paper in my hands. It smelled of tears, and that was what had made me realize that those were all lies - if it had been true, that smell of salt soaked in despair and fear would not have been there.
She was gone.
She was out there, alone, looking for the dagger and Abaddon.
And I was not with her.
Something fell onto the paper clutched in my hands. A transparent stain spread across the paper, followed by another, and another, as the image became blurred.
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