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Chapter 36

Eve's POV

The X blurs in front of my eyes. Not a smudge, not a trick of the light—sharp, black, deliberate.

My fingers crumple the paper before I can stop them, the edges digging into my palm like tiny knives. The ink seeps into the creases of my skin, a dark stain that won’t rub off. I can almost...