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Chapter 111: Fires of Devotion

Author: Zoia Zatserkovna
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-26 03:29:05

Mira’s POV

I had trusted him once before. I had believed him with every fibre of my being. And he had broken me—Alexander and Liora. The memory of that betrayal still haunted me, sharp and bitter, like a wound that refused to heal.

I thought I could survive it, that I could keep loving, keep trusting. But seeing him now with Grace, wrapping her in the same tenderness he once reserved only for me, that betrayal cut just as deep—maybe even deeper. My chest tightened, my stomach knotted, and the ache in my heart was unbearable. How could he lie so easily, pretending nothing had changed, pretending I was still the only one?

He was convincing me that they were just friends, that I was the only one in his heart, in his life, in his bed.

And I tried to believe him. I really tried.

But now… now I couldn’t.

Alexander was kneeling in front of Grace, gently embracing her like she was the most precious thing in his life.

He lied to me again. Again he shattered my heart into a thousand pieces.
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