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Chapter 18

Penulis: Crystal L
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Alaria:

I didn’t sleep that night.

I couldn't. No matter how hard I tried, sleep was refusing to come. It seemed that every moment that I was staying here was turning into hell.

And it was not the pain in my side, it was his words. It was the way that he looked at me.

It was not that he wouldn't let us leave and yet he wouldn't want her to claim anything that was hers. I didn't even want her to claim anything here.

“Try to run… and I will tear down every inch of ground between us to bring you back.”

He didn’t say it like a man trying to protect his child.

He didn't say it like he cared as a father would.

He said it like an Alpha claiming territory. Like he was forcing me to do something that I did not want to do. And he was. He knew that he was.

And I was tired of being treated like land to be conquered. I was tired of him looking at me like I was less than he was. He chose this path. If I chose to step back, it was because he chose the path.

Nasia stirred in her bed across the room,
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