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Chapter Nine: Sweetest and Darkest

My GOSH, that was just brutal, strange, and almost fascinating at the same time and in the best way! Seriously, though, not for the faint-hearted.

‘War doesn’t teach you to be a killer,’ he told me once. ‘It’s just a key that opens our door. There’s a beast in all men’s blood, Gabriel. You can starve him. Cage him. Curse him. But in the end, you pay the beast his due, or he takes his due from you.’

Part One: The Death of Days

Chapter One: Of Apples and Trees