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Chapter 15: What Elena Took

Author: Gabriella Stark
last update publish date: 2026-06-03 15:02:00

Anastasia’s POV:

I was out of my apartment in four minutes.

I did not change out of what I was wearing. I did not make coffee or think about the fact that it was nearly midnight or consider whether showing up at my brother’s door at this hour was reasonable. Marcus had sent me two sentences that had removed every other consideration from the room and I was already in the elevator before I finished reading them for the third time.

Elena is gone. And she took something with her that changes every
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