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Chapter 31
Author: Pink
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The shelter’s fluorescent lights hummed like cheap neon over a back-alley bar—harsh, unflattering, honest. 00:02 a.m. and the city above kept moving, taxis honking, sirens wailing, the distant thump of bass from a club that charged twenty bucks for tap water. Down here, though, the only currency was breath and backbone.

Elena’s lullaby drifted down the stairwell—soft, off-key, completely unaware it was a detonator.

“Hush now, my dragon, the night’s almost done…”

Margaret’s thumb hovered over th
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