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Lucien

My dear, dear Sadie, I hope this letter finds you well.

It will be my first and only letter to you.

I can picture your beautiful face and big eyes flicking through the words, confused as to why you received communications from a prison.

Truth be told, I’m beyond excited to speak with you.

This has been a long time in the making, Sadie.

I know you may have questions, a lot of them and if I know anything about your birth mother, you will have them ready for me.

Which, I promise to answer every one of them.

Unfortunately, you and I are missing vital pieces of our lives.

Damning us to this dreadful existence.

You, sweet girl, were not supposed to be born.

I tried to stop it, prevent your mother from having a child, leaving you so vulnerable and unprotected.

I was too late and while this doesn’t come from a place of hatred, our bloodline is filthy and needs to be eradicated.

Your mother has tried to reach out to you over the duration of your life, which I had someone intercept those attempts and destroy the letters so you wouldn’t be tricked into believing her treachery.

She is a wretch, she deserves nothing other than to rot for her sins.

You though, sweet girl, are going to be the one who brings this all to an end.

Below the surface, you will end up just like us, dark, depraved, a deviant… a Judas.

I will see you soon, Sadie; just the two of us.

My beautiful, corruptive, girl.

Be good, Uncle Lucien