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Eric rubbed his forehead. “You claim to be a Brotherhood, but you’re the most fractured, shortsighted collection of emotionally stunted people I’ve ever met. You must know it weakens you? All this never care bullshit? Never love, never interfere? If you were an actual Brotherhood it never would have gotten this bad. You’d have known there was a traitor among you this whole time.”

“Fuck me, Octavius has a heart?”

“I didn’t turn on him,” Saint explained. “I told him the truth, and he didn’t much like it. Mikalis has a complicated relationship with the truth.”

Saint closed the bedroom door behind him and slumped against it. Weariness tugged on his bones. He dropped his head back, thumped the door, and closed his eyes. He’d been alive too long for this bullshit. All he wanted to do was gorge and fuck his way through the apocalypse. Was that too much to ask?

He truly had been a phantom, moving through the world, untouched and untouchable. But Saint saw him in ways he hadn’t known he’d needed. In dangerous ways.

~ Octavius

Diving into the first round of edits. Here we go...

“We can’t go in guns-blazing.”
Zaine shrugged, guns akimbo. “The chances of finding Saint and getting him out without any bloodshed are exactly zero. Until I get wings and whatever other upgrades y’all ancient-assholes have, I’m taking the guns.”

Felix gripped the back of the couch behind Kazimir. “Is nobody else worried? None of you look all that concerned. Is it just me?”
“I’m pretty sure we’re all screaming on the inside,” Zaine said.

The truth was out there. There was no putting it back in a box.
Vampires are real.
Welcome to the end of the world.

Octavius would die for the Brotherhood, for the people. He was ready.