The Return Of The God of War

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"No. " Duke says in a voice that he hardly recognizes as his own.

He is still being held down and he is still motionlessly watching her.

She falls to her knees with her hands around her throat, but she is not yet dead.

The Grand Lord, being the cold-hearted devil that he is, did not slice through her throat all through.

She is still alive as life slips out of her, a bit at a time.

" What, you think I would kill her with a cut?" He gives off a sinister laugh. " That would be too easy and we aren't men of ease. "

Duke is looking at her, begging her with his eyes to hold on to dear life.

It looks like he is experiencing his family's death all over again and he hates it because he has kept that memory in a part of him that he has frozen.

" I told you, you are not going to win. " The Grand Lord reminds him. " And now I am going to kill everyone that you know and even have the smallest of love for."

He watches Eve struggle and all he can imagine is how the exact same thing will be d