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READ: Brooklyn's Blood Oath
Chapter 1 The Last Fire The bus smelled of diesel and someone’s forgotten breakfast, a stale warmth that clung to the vinyl seats even after the doors opened. Lexi Albright stepped onto the curb in Brooklyn East Side with her single suitcase pressed against her leg, and the cold hit her before anything else. Not the clean cold of a Missouri winter, the kind that settled over Joplin in dry, predictable sheets. This cold was wet, a wind that found the gaps in her coat and staye







