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Chapter Twenty One – Selena

Author: Ojo hope
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-18 22:22:53

There are sounds that mean nothing until they mean everything. The click of the door was one of them — a small, final thing that made the air rearrange itself into a different shape: smaller, heavier, sharper. For a long beat I only registered the temperature of the sunlight on my forearms, the way the world beyond the glass was ordinary and wrong.

I stood frozen in the center of the room, the echo of his words still ringing in my ears.

They had been so casual, as if he were pointing out a view. But in their calmness was cruelty. Every path in this house leads to me. The sentence mapped my days, the stairs and halls suddenly not neutral but arteries routing everything back to his will. In my mind I could line the house like a chessboard and see him the way a king sees it — pieces moved with inevitability.

Every path in this house leads to me.

My fists clenched so hard my nails dug into my palms, sharp little crescents of pain. Pain was easier to name than fear. It gave me something ph
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