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Chapter 77 - EQUALS

Cassidy

The silence that followed the Oracle's departure was crushing.

Her words clung to the air like smoke, staining everything they touched.

"She should have just killed your father the day he was born instead of causing all this trouble."

My heart was thundering in my chest.

Everyone in that room had heard it.

Your father.

Not Kieran's.

Mine.

And Damon's.

A sudden chill raced down my spine, and when I looked to Kieran, his expression wasn't cold—it was calculating. Studying me. His jaw was tight, but his eyes… they were burning with questions he wasn't sure he had the right to ask.

Freya was the first to speak.

"The Oracle doesn't lie," she said quietly, scanning her tablet but not really reading it. "She may speak in riddles, but her words always lead to something real."

"Cassidy," Alaric said, his tone slower now, more careful. "Your father… he was killed recently, wasn't he? By your brother?"

My throat closed up.

I nodded, once.

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