The Pale Door

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The Pale Door

Chapter One "Seizure of Estate: Ortego, Lucien. Reason: Non-payment of Crown Debts. Authority: His Majesty’s Treasurer." The ink was still wet on the parchment, glistening like a wound in the dim light of the bayou shack. Lucien Ortego, a man whose hands had ground blades for thirty years, held the document with a trembling grip, the paper thin as a slave’s pass he had once seen worn smooth by...

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