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Chapter 24 - Chains of Despair, Claws of Hope

LANDON

The scent of death filled the abandoned vampire lair—stale blood and decaying flesh. I was too late, and the rage that consumed me nearly blinded me to everything else. Bodies littered the stone floor, the remnants of some kind of bloodbath. Vampires, by the smell of them, and something else—something that made my skin crawl.

Then I caught it—her scent. Faint but unmistakable. My maid.

I followed the trail deeper into the labyrinthine corridors, the stench of decay growing stronger. Her scent led me to a small, cramped cell at the end of a long hallway. The iron door hung open, its lock shattered.

Inside, a woman lay dying on the cold stone floor, her body twisted in agony. Not my maid, but someone who had been with her.

I knelt beside her, my massive frame dwarfing her broken body. "Where is she?" I growled.

The woman's eyes fluttered open, glassy with pain. "Taken... auction..." Her voice was barely a whisper.

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