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    The Wielder: Betrayal / Prologue
    The Wielder: Betrayal / Prologue
    The Wielder: Betrayal / Prologue
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    The Wielder: Betrayal / Prologue

    By David Gosnell

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    This is the prologue for Betrayal. I am publishing it here for free for the readers of the series in advance of the re-release of the novel.

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    PublisherDavid Gosnell
    Release dateFeb 16, 2018
    The Wielder: Betrayal / Prologue
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    David Gosnell

    David Gosnell is a former ad-man, now full-time insurance adjuster who writes a bit to keep his sanity while working away from home. David is a terrible, but loud musician, a fair tennis player, and an avid fan and participant of fantasy MMORPGs. The Wielder: Betrayal is David's first novel. He is currently working on the second part of the third installment of the series - "Death Curse."

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      The Wielder - David Gosnell

      The Wielder: Betrayal/Prologue

      David Gosnell

      Copyright December 2017

      David Gosnell- All rights reserved.

      *****

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      This book is a work of fiction. All characters in this novel are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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      Proglogue

      Beginning

      North Carolina, 1934

      Kid! He done it again, Bigs says, breaking into the room.

      Durned fool. At least I already put my dick away. The girls are still on their knees, their smiles wiped away by the large man’s news. But the evidence of my earlier pleasure hasn’t exactly been wiped away.

      Damn, Bigs, can’t you see we’re having a moment here? Couldn’t you tell Uncle Ardan about this? We’re celebrating my marriage, you know.

      You’re so bad, Kid, Lucy says, running her hand up my thigh.

      Kid. You know the old man’d kill the fool, Bigs says.

      Damn, I say, knowing he’s telling the truth. Uncle Ardan warned him once. That’s all the warning you get with him. Bigs, give me a moment to finish up with these fine ladies here, right?

      I take another pull from the mason jar because that’s

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