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Chen and Dima watched along with several crows who landed nearby.
Other Four Aces came over to get Leo’s head. They wrapped it in blue silk and placed it in a leathered box.
Hu frowned. “I’m glad the crows didn’t eat that up.”
“Why?”
“Lei will need to show Leo’s head to Kashmere the new leader of the Killer Crows.” Hu let out a long breath. “She’ll need a clear confirmation that her brother and sister was avenged.”
“Maybe, the crows knew that.”
Master Wu and his assistants took Lei away on the gurney and we followed.
All I could think about was what would happen next?
Was everything over with?
Could we finally have our happy ending?
Chapter thirty-six
Home
Lei
Soon, I would go home.
Not the home built of stone and mortar, with grand halls and heavy doors. Not the looming Palace where power seeped into the very walls and echoed with ruthless wealth.
No.
Home was Moni.
She wasn’t a place I could point to on a map or claim with a deed. She was warmth in my chest, fire in my veins, and peace in a world that had always been death and violence.
The thought of her was a rope pulling me through the dark maze of my own mind.
I didn’t know when I’d find my way back to her.
But I knew it would be soon.
Very fucking soon.
The urgency burned in me like a fever, a restless energy that wouldn’t let me stay still.
Home was her touch, grounding me in a way nothing else could.
Home was her voice, weaving through my thoughts, reminding me of everything I had yet to fight for.
Home was her scent, her strength, her defiance, and her surrender—all the pieces of her that made me whole.
Soon.
Until then. . .I would be here.
The wind rippled across Dream Lake—a place where time stood still, where the boundaries between life and death blurred into something infinitely vast yet achingly intimate.
A red moon hung heavy above the water; its reflection fractured by unseen currents.
