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Would You Rather?

作者: Norah Black
last update 公開日: 2026-06-26 23:51:37

**ATLAS**

My mother used to measure my height against the kitchen doorframe, beaming with pride every time I outgrew the pencil mark she had made the year before.

Standing before me now, wearing that same smile as she admired the chains biting into my wrists, I found myself wondering whether people truly rotted from the inside—or whether they simply woke up one morning and decided to bury whatever was left of their hearts.

For my mother, it must have been the latter. And sitting in this chair,
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ZMR87
at this point, this story is getting depressing .
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  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    The Gamble

    **ATLAS**I never flinched when I saw the gun. Lily was left handed, finger already on the trigger.Too far to disarm.Calista was standing behind my right shoulder.If she fired center mass, I would fall backwards onto her.I kept her behind me, telling myself that if she was still alive, that was more than enough for now.“Going somewhere, dear?” My mother's voice cut through my mind. I turned my neck to find her hand still firm on Ledger's shoulder. His lips had turned a bluish purple, and it dawned on me just how much was at stake.“I did not put it past you to have a backup plan, but this?” I waved a hand, turning my glare to Lily's form, “... this is just pathetic.”“Whatever gets the job done, love. Kill them.” She nodded to Lily, voice sounding almost bored.My body tensed as Lily stepped forward, but I did not move back, did not give her the satisfaction of watching me cower like an animal. I stared into her dark grey pools, but I was not searching for the woman I used to

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    His Choice

    **CALISTA**The pole was the only thing keeping me upright. My wrists burned against the ropes binding them behind the cold metal, legs trembling beneath my own weight as my body sagged forward. A violent shiver tore through me, forcing my teeth into my bleeding lip just to keep them from chattering.I had stopped praying for rescue.Now I was only praying for the courage not to break. My lungs felt as if someone had reached into my chest and grabbed hold of them, squeezing tight without mercy. Nausea clawed at my throat, but I clenched my stomach and tried to keep my eyes open, to not feel the goosebumps crawling over my skin.My scalp still burned from Lily's vicious grip, but I lifted my head up as a tear snuck its way down my cheek.Nobody was coming to save me. Too much time had passed since I saw Atlas, since he cradled me in his arms like he was scared to break me.Now my body itched for the warmth of his hard chest, his hairy hands cradling me deeper into his embrace. God…

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Would You Rather?

    **ATLAS**My mother used to measure my height against the kitchen doorframe, beaming with pride every time I outgrew the pencil mark she had made the year before. Standing before me now, wearing that same smile as she admired the chains biting into my wrists, I found myself wondering whether people truly rotted from the inside—or whether they simply woke up one morning and decided to bury whatever was left of their hearts.For my mother, it must have been the latter. And sitting in this chair, I found it almost ironic that I had run so far from this place only to be dragged right back in chains. Maybe we never really outrun our demons. We just ran in circles around them until they reached out to grab us. But my bones had grown weary from running, with every word Ledger said still clouding my mind even as his face paled and the smell of his blood hung in the air. I did not flinch under her stare, meeting it with all the anger that I could muster. “Do you ever get tired of playing

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Last Resort

    **CALISTA**My mouth felt like someone had stuffed it with cotton and left it out in the sun.I swallowed and immediately regretted it, feeling a sharp pain blooming behind my eyes—the kind that came after too much alcohol, too little sleep, or a tranquilizer dart fired into your arm by your fiancé's psychotic ex fiancée.For a moment, I lay perfectly still, waiting for my wrists to burn, waiting for the ropes, the cuffs, the chains…anything.Instead, when my hand drifted sluggishly toward my face, my fingers brushed my cheek without resistance.I froze.Then I moved again, slowly and carefully lifting my left hand, then my right. Free.Free?A knot tightened in my stomach. If the Martyrs wanted me restrained, I would be restrained, which meant they had chosen not to tie me up.And somehow, that felt much worse, and I found myself longing for the chains and the certainty of death. But it was not even my freedom that sent my pulse racing. It was the complete absence of blood on my ha

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Dead to Me

    **ATLAS**I had spent so much time wishing for unconsciousness that I almost resented it for never staying.The first thing I noticed was that the pain never faded away. The second was that I was still unclad, save for my underwear. If I was grateful for anything, it was that my hand no longer hung above my head in chains—instead they rested on the metal armrests The darkness came and went, and every time consciousness dragged me back to the surface, I was reminded of the stinging at my back, my throbbing side, the metallic taste of my own blood…and the deep breathing of a man fighting to stay alive. I could not see him, but I could hear him—every ragged breath, every shift of his chains, every reminder that my last conversation with the woman who birthed me would not stay buried. Every time the darkness dragged me under, Ledger’s breathing dragged me back into the silence— so rough, so uneven, so…painfully human. I latched on to the sound like the last anchor in a raging storm,

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Road to Hell

    **CALISTA**The first thing I smelled when I woke up was blood.So much blood that it sent nausea tearing through my stomach. For one horrible second, I thought the bullet had found me after all. The burning in my side intensified with every bump of my body, and I winced, waiting for the darkness to take me again. Then engine oil invaded my lungs, thick and bitter, and my eyes snapped open.I realised that I was lying face flat on what seemed to be the rusty floor of a moving vehicle. My ears picked up the steady hum of the engine, and I curled my feet to my chest to still my racing heart. My hands were bound behind my back, so tight that my wrists had started to burn, and my shoulders had started to ache. I sucked in a breath, but it only tasted like copper.I tried to remember where I was, or what happened…but all I could hear in my mind was the gunshot, and the thud of my body hitting the ground.Gunshot. Oh god—I puffed out my chest, wincing at the heat burning my side, waiti

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    One More Day

    **ATLAS**The hallway was not long enough for the amount of fear trying to claw its way out of my chest.Every second Sienna spent behind that door with Calista felt like a personal punishment from God. Like I had something so inexplicably wrong for loving another man's wife. For not reminding her

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Hours After My Divorce

    **CALISTA**I kept waiting for the papers to disappear.For the ink to vanish.For someone to tell me that I had imagined the whole thing because men like Merrick Fairfax did not let go.And yet his signature stared back at me from the bottom of the page, dark and undeniable.He signed it. He looke

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    Checkmate, Motherfucker

    **MERRICK**I had spent days wondering what Calista was planning. Apparently, the answer was humiliating me before breakfast.Or at least, attempting to. I stood at the top of the stairs for longer than I could remember, staring down at their figures standing rigid in the foyer as they waited. Th

  • After Rebirth, I Married My Ex-husband's Enemy    What You Threw Away

    **MERRICK**The funny thing about destruction was that nobody told you how quiet it got afterwards.No screaming.No gunshots.No crashing stock prices.Nothing.Just me, a half-empty pack of cigarettes, and a mother who might never wake up again.Oh…and Astrid. But she had made a point of ignoring

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