My Father Sold Me To The Mob, But A 400-Year-Old Vampire Bought My Debt
Part 2
The drive was agonizingly silent.
I sat rigidly in the plush leather passenger seat of Vincent’s midnight black Maybach.
My mind was an absolute war zone.
I had been sold by my own father to a literal monster.
I had seen him take bullets to the chest and shrug them off.
I had seen him move with inhuman speed.
Worst of all, he knew my secret.
Or did he?
I thought desperately that maybe he was just bluffing about hearing my heartbeat.
I resolved to double down on my silence.
If I admitted I could hear, I surrendered the only practical advantage I had ever possessed.
We eventually pulled up to a massive gothic-style mansion, a fortress of dark stone with high arched windows.
He led me down a long, dimly lit hallway and into a vast library lined with thousands of leather-bound tomes.
He commanded me to sit, pointing to a heavy leather armchair.
I sat, pulling out my pen and notepad, looking up at him with a face of anxious innocence.
Vincent walked over to a crystal decanter and poured himself a glass of a thick, dark red liquid.
My stomach churned.
It definitely wasn’t wine.
He turned to face me, leaning against the edge of a heavy oak desk.
He softly suggested we drop the charade.
He declared that he was aware my left ear suffered nerve damage when I was six, but my right ear was perfectly functional.
I picked up my pen and wrote to ask if he was going to kill me.
To test me, he casually knocked a heavy brass paperweight off the desk behind him without even looking.
It plummeted toward the hardwood floor with a deafening crash.
My body screamed at me to flinch, but years of conditioning took over.
I held my posture perfectly still, feigning mild confusion at his sudden stillness.
Vincent murmured that it was impressive motor control.
If he couldn’t hear the sudden rush of adrenaline in my bloodstream, he would almost believe me.
He walked slowly toward my chair, looming over me like a dark monolith.
He bent down, resting one hand on the armrest, trapping me.
He whispered that I thought I was playing a game of wits with a man, but he was not a man.
He opened his mouth slightly, and in the dim light of the library, I saw his fangs.
He confessed he had walked this earth for four hundred years and tracked by the erratic thumping of a terrified human heart.
Slowly, carefully, I set my notepad down on the side table.
I took a deep, trembling breath, finally breaking my seven-year vow of silence.
I asked him what he wanted from me.
I had finally broken my silence for a monster, but what exactly was he planning to do with me?
Part 3
The rain in the city always felt like a physical weight pressing down on the cracked pavement.
For Megan, the relentless drumming against the single-pane windows of her apartment was a comfort.
It was white noise that drowned out the sounds of the world she desperately wanted to escape.
More importantly, it helped mask the truth she had been guarding for seven long years.
Megan wasn’t completely deaf.
A lingering childhood fever had taken the hearing in her left ear, but her right ear worked perfectly fine.
It picked up the sharp clinking of coffee mugs at the diner where she worked, and tragically, the vicious, drunken ramblings of her father, Dan.
Dan was a man constructed of stale cigarettes, cheap bourbon, and an ever-expanding mountain of gambling debts.
When Megan was fourteen, she realized that engaging with his verbal abuse only fueled his rage.
So she stopped answering.
When he screamed, she stared blankly at his mouth.
When he threw a glass at the wall, she didn’t flinch.
She learned sign language, carried a battered notepad, and convinced him and the entire neighborhood that she lived in absolute silence.
It was the ultimate armor.
If she couldn’t hear the insults, they couldn’t hurt her.
At twenty-two, she was still playing the part, working the graveyard shift at a dreary twenty-four-hour diner.
The rusted bell above the diner door jingled late on a Tuesday evening.
Megan was wiping down a booth, her long dark hair intentionally draped over her right shoulder to hide her good ear.
She didn’t look up, because a deaf girl wouldn’t have heard the bell.
Her shift manager signed clumsily from behind the counter to point out a new customer at table six.
Megan nodded, offering a practiced, tight-lipped smile, and grabbed a fresh menu.
She turned toward the table, and for the first time in her life, her meticulously controlled heartbeat skipped.
The man sitting in the red vinyl booth did not belong in this gritty suburb at all.
He was massive, easily towering over six feet with shoulders broad enough to eclipse the window behind him.
He wore a dark, impeccably tailored suit that probably cost more than the diner itself.
His skin was pale, almost luminous under the harsh fluorescent lights, and his hair was a sleek raven color.
But it was his eyes that locked Megan in place.
They were a piercing, impossible shade of amber.
He wasn’t looking at the menu.
He was looking directly at her.
Megan forced her breathing to steady, reminding herself of her role.
She walked over, pulling her notepad from her apron.
Clicking her pen, she wrote that she was deaf and asked him to point to his order.
The giant man looked at the notepad, then back up at her face.
He leaned back in the booth, interlacing his large, ring-clad fingers.
His voice, when he spoke, was a deep, resonant baritone that sent an involuntary shiver down Megan’s spine.
It vibrated in the air, rich and hypnotic, telling her that she didn’t require food.
Megan stared blankly at his lips, acting as though she was trying to read them.
The man smirked with a terrifying, beautiful expression.
He murmured that she played the part very well, his amber eyes tracking the microscopic twitch of her jaw.
He finally picked up the pen and wrote a single sentence on her pad.
He was there for Dan.
Megan’s blood ran cold.
Dan owed money to a lot of people, including Brian, the local mob enforcer.
But this man wasn’t a street thug; he exuded a suffocating, terrifying authority.
She took the pen back and wrote that she didn’t know where her father was.
The man stood up, entirely dwarfing her.
He reached into his coat, pulled out a crisp hundred-dollar bill, and laid it over her notepad.
Speaking directly to her face at a normal volume, he told her to let Dan know that Vincent had come to collect.
The name meant nothing to her, but the way he said it sounded like a death sentence.
He turned and walked out of the diner, leaving Megan frozen.
The smell of vomit and cheap whiskey hit Megan the moment she unlocked the door to their cramped apartment.
Takeout boxes littered the floor, and the television was blaring a late-night infomercial.
Dan was passed out on the stained beige sofa, a half-empty bottle dangling precariously from his grip.
Megan locked the deadbolt and sighed, walking over to hit the power button on the TV.
Dan jolted awake, his bloodshot eyes struggling to focus, and immediately started shouting at her.
He marched over and grabbed her roughly by the shoulder, spinning her around.
She looked at him with wide, blank eyes and raised her hands to sign that she couldn’t hear him.
He spat venomous words, demanding her tip money because Brian’s boys wanted ten grand by midnight.
Suddenly, the heavy thud of deliberate, synchronized footsteps echoed from the hallway outside.
Megan’s heart hammered against her ribs, but she kept her face completely devoid of panic.
Dan froze, his face draining of color.
Someone pounded on the door.
A gruff voice shouted from the other side, demanding they open up.
It was Brian.
Dan looked at Megan with sheer terror in his eyes, backing away from the door and mouthing the word ‘hide’.
Before either of them could move, the front door exploded inward with a deafening crash.
Three large, heavily tattooed men barged into the tiny living room.
Brian stepped over the ruined door, his eyes scanning the room until they landed on Megan.
A nasty, predatory grin spread across his face as he suggested she might fetch a decent price.
He stepped toward her.
Dan shouted from the floor, desperate to protect his own skin, telling Brian not to bother because she was broken merchandise.
He called her a useless deaf mute.
Brian laughed, reaching out to grab Megan’s arm.
Before his fingers could graze her skin, the temperature in the room plummeted.
The temperature in the small living space plummeted to a freezing chill.
The single light bulb hanging from the ceiling flickered wildly, then burst, showering them in sparks.
The shadows in the corner of the room seemed to stretch and condense, pooling together into a towering figure.
A voice vibrated through the room, declaring that she belonged to him.
It was Vincent.
Brian and his men spun around, pulling firearms from their jackets and aiming at the giant’s chest.
Vincent stepped into the pale moonlight filtering through the window, looking utterly bored.
He announced that he had bought Dan’s debt from their employer.
With a cruel sneer, Brian commanded his thugs to shoot.
Megan clapped her hands over her ears as the deafening roar of three handguns went off in the enclosed space.
She squeezed her eyes shut, waiting for the heavy thud of the giant’s body hitting the floor.
Instead, there was a sickening crunch, followed by horrible gurgling screams.
Megan opened her eyes to a sight that shattered every rational thought she possessed.
The giant moved with a blistering speed that defied human comprehension.
He dismantled them with effortless brutality, snapping necks and absorbing bullets as if they were nothing.
He grabbed Brian by the collar and tossed the large enforcer out the shattered second-story window.
The apartment descended into a horrifying silence, save for Dan’s pathetic whimpering.
Vincent turned his glowing amber eyes to Dan, reminding him of the debt.
Dan sobbed that he had nothing, offering the TV, and finally, offering Megan.
Vincent’s gaze shifted to her.
Megan forced her face into a mask of pure, uncomprehending terror, signing rapidly.
He slowly walked toward her, his boots making no sound against the floorboards.
He leaned down, his face hovering mere millimeters from her good ear.
Dan shouted from the floor that she was deaf.
Vincent ignored him, his voice barely a breath against her skin.
He whispered that he could hear the blood rushing through her veins and her heart accelerating because she understood every single word.
He knew she could hear him.
He pulled back with a terrifying smile and told Dan the debt was settled, because he was taking the girl.
Not a single word was spoken during the excruciating drive north.
Megan sat rigidly in the plush leather passenger seat of Vincent’s midnight black luxury car.
The tinted windows hid the outside world, but she knew they were driving north, away from the city.
Her mind was an absolute war zone.
She was trapped.
She had been sold by her own father to a literal monster.
She had seen him take bullets to the chest and shrug them off.
She had seen him move with inhuman speed.
Worst of all, he knew her secret.
Or did he?
She thought desperately that maybe he was just bluffing.
Maybe he couldn’t actually hear her heartbeat.
She resolved to double down on her silence.
If she admitted she could hear, she surrendered the only practical advantage she had ever possessed.
She would remain deaf.
She would be a statue.
Vincent sat behind the steering wheel, his large hands resting lightly on the leather.
He hadn’t said a word since they left the apartment.
They eventually pulled up to a massive gothic-style mansion, a fortress of dark stone with high arched windows.
He parked the car and killed the engine.
He just got out.
Megan waited a beat, playing the part of someone waiting for a visual cue, before unbuckling her seatbelt and stepping into the damp, cold night air.
The silence here was heavy and oppressive.
Vincent walked toward the massive oak front doors.
Megan followed a few paces behind, gripping her notepad tightly.
He led her down a long, dimly lit hallway and into a vast library lined with thousands of leather-bound tomes.
He commanded her to sit, pointing to a heavy leather armchair.
She sat, pulling out her pen and notepad, looking up at him with a face of anxious innocence.
Vincent casually strolled to a crystal decanter, filling his glass with an ominously thick, scarlet fluid.
Megan’s stomach churned.
It definitely wasn’t wine.
He turned to face her, leaning against the edge of a heavy oak desk.
He softly suggested they drop the charade.
He wasn’t looking at her lips.
He was looking straight into her eyes.
He declared that he was aware her left ear suffered nerve damage when she was six, but her right ear was perfectly functional.
Megan stared at his mouth, acting as if she were painstakingly trying to read his lips.
She picked up her pen and wrote to ask if he was going to kill her.
Vincent sighed with genuine amusement, calling her stubborn.
To test her, he casually knocked a heavy brass paperweight off the desk behind him without even looking.
The heavy brass object slammed against the polished hardwood with an explosive thud.
Megan’s body screamed at her to flinch, but years of conditioning took over.
She held her posture perfectly still.
Her eyes didn’t dart to the fallen object.
She kept her gaze fixed on Vincent, feigning mild confusion at his sudden stillness.
He murmured that it was impressive motor control.
If he couldn’t hear the sudden rush of adrenaline in her bloodstream, he would almost believe her.
He walked slowly toward her chair, looming over her like a dark monolith.
He bent down, resting one hand on the armrest, trapping her.
His face was inches from hers again.
He whispered that she thought she was playing a game of wits with a man, but he was not a man.
He opened his mouth slightly, and in the dim light of the library, Megan saw them.
They were long, elegantly curved, and needle-sharp.
He admitted to roaming the world for four centuries, hunting prey by the frantic rhythm of their panicked hearts.
Slowly, carefully, Megan set her notepad down on the side table.
She didn’t reach for her pen.
She took a deep, trembling breath, finally breaking her seven-year vow of silence.
She asked him what he wanted from her.
Vincent’s terrifying smile returned.
He just wanted someone to listen.
The first two weeks at the estate felt less like captivity and more like a bizarre quarantine.
Megan was given a room in the east wing that was larger than her entire apartment.
It featured a four-poster mahogany bed, an en suite bathroom, and a closet filled with expensive clothes that fit her perfectly.
Her job as an archivist was not a euphemism.
Vincent was a meticulous, obsessive record keeper, and his library held thousands of handwritten journals dating back centuries.
Megan’s task was to digitize and organize a specific collection of ledgers from the late nineteenth century.
The silence she had maintained for seven years was now broken, but only for him.
With the household staff, she still reflexively signed or wrote notes, a trauma response she couldn’t simply switch off.
But in the dim, amber-lit library, when the midnight hours stretched long, she spoke.
Her voice, initially raspy and hesitant, slowly regained its melody.
It turned out the terrifying vampire king was a voracious conversationalist.
One rainy Tuesday night, Vincent was standing directly behind her chair, his chest mere inches from her back.
He ran so cold that she could feel the chill radiating through her sweater.
Megan sighed, leaning back slightly, daring to close the distance between them just a fraction.
They discussed the atrocious handwriting in a ledger detailing his businesses after the great fire in the city.
Vincent casually admitted that the fire was a necessity, a localized outbreak of a blood-borne pathogen that had to be contained.
Megan’s breath caught in her throat.
She was casually discussing historical mass destruction with the architect of the event.
Yet, instead of terror, a strange, intoxicating thrill rushed through her veins.
She whispered that he destroyed an entire city grid to cover his tracks.
He corrected her, leaning closer until his lips hovered near her good ear, stating he protected his food source.
He reached around her to point at the ledger, his large, ring-clad hand resting over hers.
The physical contact sent a jolt of electricity straight to her core.
Suddenly, Vincent’s tone shifted from playful to deadly serious.
He asked her to tell him about Dan.
Megan stiffened, insisting there was nothing to tell, that Dan was just a drunk running from loan sharks.
Vincent slowly withdrew his hand and picked up a manila folder from his desk.
He explained that men like Brian do not collect large gambling debts by threatening to sell a girl; they do it by moving weight.
He tossed the folder onto her desk.
Inside were photographs of a rusted shipping container and a recent ledger.
Vincent stated that Dan wasn’t just gambling; he was holding a shipment of weapons for Craig, the mob boss.
Dan lost the shipment to a rival gang, and he owed them an arsenal.
Megan felt the blood drain from her face.
Vincent coldly added that Craig was currently tearing the city apart looking for the man who threw his best enforcer out a window.
Panic gripped her.
She asked why they were sitting there reading ledgers if a heavily armed mob was coming.
Vincent interrupted, his voice dropping an octave, rich with ancient, predatory anticipation.
He told her to let them come.
He had brought her there to keep her safe, and he protected what was his.
Before Megan could process the possessive weight of his words, the heavy oak doors of the library burst open.
The butler stood there, calmly stating that approximately twenty heavily armed trespassers were breaching the front gates.
They were demanding Vincent hand over the girl.
The heavy, rhythmic thud of combat boots echoed across the cobblestone courtyard, cutting through the estate’s unnatural silence.
Megan rushed to the towering arched window, peering through the heavy velvet drapes.
Below, illuminated by sweeping beams of tactical flashlights, were dozens of men pouring out of matte black SUVs.
Vincent stood right behind her, looking at her reflection in the glass.
Megan spun around, her heart hammering violently, warning him about the automatic weapons.
He replied smoothly that he had a terrible thirst.
He removed his tailored suit jacket and rolled up his sleeves to reveal thick, muscular forearms.
He commanded Megan to stay in the library and lock the heavy doors.
She pleaded with him, grabbing his freezing, rigid forearm, terrified they would shoot him to pieces.
He smirked, entirely unbothered, and reached up to cup her cheek.
His thumb traced her jawline, lingering near her right ear.
He whispered that her heart was beating for him, and it was intoxicating.
He pressed his cold lips against her forehead in a fleeting, surprisingly tender gesture.
Then he vanished, blurring with such horrifying speed that the air cracked in his wake.
Megan scrambled to the heavy oak doors, shoving the massive brass deadbolt into place just as gunfire erupted outside.
The sound was a deafening, staccato roar of violence that echoed off the stone walls.
She ran back to the window, her hands trembling as she parted the drapes.
It wasn’t a fight; it was an execution.
Vincent was a shadow woven into the rain, moving laterally across the courtyard and ripping a man’s throat out before the soldier even knew he was there.
He moved to the next, grabbing an assault rifle and snapping the weapon and the man’s wrists with a sickening crunch.
Craig screamed from safely behind one of the SUVs, ordering his men to light Vincent up.
Three men concentrated their fire on Vincent.
The bullets tore into his back and shoulders, staining his white shirt crimson, but Vincent didn’t fall.
He didn’t even flinch.
He slowly turned his head, his eyes now glowing a terrifying, luminescent crimson in the dark.
The men stopped firing, their faces slackening with absolute, paralyzing horror.
Vincent descended upon them, brutal, efficient, and horrifyingly primal.
He wasn’t just killing them; he was feeding.
Megan watched as the vampire king hoisted a massive thug into the air and sank his fangs into the man’s neck.
Within minutes, the courtyard was a graveyard, with nineteen men dead or dying in the pooling rainwater.
Only Craig remained.
The mob boss was on his knees in the mud, his gun empty, his face pale as a sheet.
Vincent grabbed Craig by the collar and dragged him toward the massive front doors.
Megan backed away from the window, holding her breath as heavy footsteps echoed on the stairs.
Vincent’s voice came from the other side of the oak wood, commanding her to open the door.
Trembling, she slid the brass deadbolt back and pulled the door open.
Vincent stood there, holding a battered, bleeding Craig by the scruff of his neck.
The bullet wounds in Vincent’s shoulders were already knitting themselves closed, pushing the flattened slugs out of his flesh.
He threw Craig into the center of the library, the mob boss groaning and coughing up blood.
Vincent stepped into the room, breathing heavily from the adrenaline of the feed, the beast right at the surface.
He growled at Craig to tell the girl what he had confessed downstairs.
Craig looked up at Megan, his eyes wide with fear, and wheezed that it was Dan who had set this up.
Dan had told them where the giant lived, offering the address so they could take Megan back as collateral and wipe his debt clean.
The room spun as the air vanished from Megan’s lungs.
Her father had explicitly sent a hit squad to Vincent’s home to kidnap his own daughter just to save his own miserable skin.
She whispered that he had sold her out.
The last thread of familial loyalty snapped, leaving nothing but a cold, hollow void.
Vincent looked at her, the crimson fading from his eyes, replaced by a sharp, piercing amber.
He saw the heartbreak, the final shattering betrayal in her posture.
He looked down at Craig, stated he had served his purpose, and with a swift, brutal kick, snapped the man’s neck.
Megan didn’t scream or flinch; she just stared at the body of the man her father had sent to ruin her.
Vincent walked over to her, covered in blood and violence, but his touch was impossibly gentle.
He pulled her against his chest.
For the first time in her life, Megan didn’t try to hide, didn’t play deaf, and didn’t build a wall.
She buried her face into the cold, hard expanse of his chest and let out a broken sob.
Vincent wrapped his massive arms tightly around her, whispering darkly into her ear that they would epilogue this story tonight.
He declared that Dan was a dead man.
The luxury car tore down the interstate like a black ghost, slicing through the torrential downpour.
Inside the cabin, the silence was a heavy, suffocating blanket of anticipation.
Vincent had changed into a black cashmere turtleneck and a dark overcoat, looking immaculate and aristocratic once again.
But Megan could still smell the copper clinging to his skin, a sharp reminder of his violent capabilities.
He told her she did not have to come, not taking his amber eyes off the slick road.
Megan replied steadily that she did, because Dan had looked the mob in the eye and traded her life for his debts.
She needed to see it end.
Vincent’s jaw tightened as he warned her it would not be clean.
They pulled into the cracked asphalt parking lot of a decaying, two-story motel.
Vincent parked out of sight, and they walked along the exterior corridor on the ground floor.
The air smelled of wet asphalt, cheap weed, and stale beer.
Vincent didn’t bother knocking; he raised his boot and kicked the heavy steel door dead center.
The door tore off its hinges, flying across the dingy room and crashing into a dresser.
Dan shrieked, dropping a fistful of crumpled clothes and scrambling backward against the far wall.
The room was a disaster, reeking of fear and unwashed bodies.
When Dan looked up and saw Vincent, the color drained from his bloated face.
But when he saw Megan step in behind the giant, his expression morphed into a desperate, sickening relief.
He babbled his thanks, claiming he was trying to set a trap for the mob by telling them where she was.
Megan stood frozen, staring at the pathetic, trembling man who was bleeding lies from every pore.
Vincent didn’t say a word, his amber eyes locking onto Dan like a sniper’s laser.
The temperature in the room plummeted instantly.
Dan begged Vincent on his knees, then frantically signed to Megan, asking her to tell him to let him go.
Megan looked at his hands, then up at his face, seeing genuine fear but no love.
He was just looking for a shield.
Slowly, Megan stepped out from behind Vincent’s massive frame.
She looked her father dead in the eye, took a deep breath, and spoke her first words to him in seven years.
She said that she heard him.
Dan froze, his jaw going slack, the clumsy sign language stopping midair.
She repeated that she heard him tell Brian she was broken merchandise and tell Craig she was just collateral.
She declared that for seven years, she had heard every insult and every pathetic excuse, and she was finally done listening.
Dan’s eyes widened in absolute shock as the realization hit him like a physical blow.
He whimpered to Megan that she was his blood and couldn’t let this freak kill him.
In a fraction of a second, Vincent had Dan pinned against the peeling wallpaper, lifting him two feet off the floor by his throat.
Vincent whispered with a demonic resonance that she was not his blood anymore.
He declared she belonged to the estate, to the shadows, and to him.
With a look of utter disgust, Vincent tightened his grip, and a sharp, sickening crack echoed through the room.
Dan’s body went completely limp, and Vincent tossed the corpse aside like a piece of garbage.
Megan stared at the body, waiting for guilt or tears, but nothing came.
There was just an overwhelming, exhausting sense of relief.
The white noise was finally gone.
Vincent turned to her, the predatory aggression fading as he gently wiped a stray tear from her eye.
He murmured that it was done, and he would never sell her again.
Megan leaned into his touch and whispered for him to take her home.
The return to the Vincent’s estate was a blur of adrenaline crash and deep, bone-aching exhaustion.
Vincent led Megan up the grand sweeping staircase to the master wing, a part of the house she had never been allowed to enter.
The massive suite was decorated in deep burgundies and dark wood, with a real fire roaring in the fireplace.
Megan stood in the center of the room, shivering as the reality of the night crashed down on her.
Her knees buckled, and she collapsed onto the edge of the plush, king-sized bed.
Vincent returned from the bathroom with a warm, damp towel and knelt on the floor in front of her.
The ancient apex predator gently wiped the smudges of dirt and rain from her cheeks and hands.
He softly noted she was going into shock.
Megan lied that she was fine, trembling as she asked if she was still a prisoner there now that Dan was gone.
Vincent stopped wiping her hands and moved closer, remaining on his knees.
He took both her hands in his, murmuring that she was never a prisoner.
She was an obsession from the moment she walked up to his table at the diner.
He had been captivated by the steady, defiant rhythm of her heart.
He confessed he bought her debt because he wanted her in his house, his voice mingling ancient authority with something raw and vulnerable.
He had lived in absolute darkness for four centuries, but her heartbeat grounded him.
He slowly stood up, pulling her effortlessly to her feet until their bodies collided.
Megan gasped at his overwhelming physical presence.
He whispered that he didn’t want an archivist; he wanted a queen.
He wanted her, but he would not keep her in a cage.
He offered her the fueled luxury car and enough money to start a new life anywhere in the world if she wished to leave.
Megan looked up into his mesmerizing amber eyes, thinking of the cold, dreary apartment and the constant fear she had endured.
Then she looked at the monster who had slaughtered an army to keep her safe.
There was no choice at all.
She breathed that she wasn’t going anywhere, reaching up and threading her fingers into his thick raven hair.
Vincent let out a low, predatory groan that vibrated straight through her core and crashed his lips down onto hers.
The kiss was an explosion of fire and ice, consuming her with dark, intoxicating power.
Megan responded with equal fervor, the tension of the night pouring into the kiss.
She was done being the helpless girl.
Let them hunt us, she thought, knowing they had no idea what was waiting for them in the dark.
Vincent smiled, baring his fangs, and pulled his queen into the shadows.
THE END
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