Daybreak
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"What are you?"
There's a secret he's hiding.
So little is known about this strange man Bree stumbles across in the midst of a high-end art gallery. He seems respectable enough, massive penthouse and dreamy green eyes, every inch of him screams wealth and power to most that come across him, and he's treated as such about everywhere he goes, but there's just something Bree can't shake about the way this guy looks at her. It's almost as if- they've met before?
But that couldn't be right, she's sure she would've remembered a face like that-
Especially when he rushes to her rescue merely hours after meeting, shedding light to ancient secrets and a rivalry of prophetic proportions that might just break her entire world apart at the seams.
And also elves exist for some reason?
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