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Author: Golden Butterfly
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-03 19:09:31

TESSA

He's agreed to let us keep the house, to forgive the debt. If this marriage happens, we won't lose everything." She reaches out tentatively as though she's afraid I'll pull away. "And he's promised to take good care of you. You'll want for nothing."

Nothing except freedom. Nothing except choice. Nothing except the chance to live my own life on my own terms.

I nod, getting the unspoken message. My happiness, my choice, my future. Small prices to pay for my family's survival. I'm the sacrifice on the altar of their mistakes, the lamb offered up to appease the wolf at our door.

"Don't worry, Mother. I'll marry Blaze Langston." Each syllable cuts my throat on the way out.

"I knew we could rely on you," she says, relief flooding her voice.

She reaches out and smooths my hair with trembling fingers, the gesture both comforting and heartbreaking. "You've always been such a good daughter, even when..."

Even when I was fat, ugly and an embarrassment to the family name. Even when I got be
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Could Blaze be the mystery man who saved her all those years ago? Was he a secret admirer that she dismissed because her heart was set on someone else?
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