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CHAPTER 95: “When Best Friend Become Enemies

Author: Hannahgold
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-29 10:22:42

DAMIAN

A week. Seven raw days that taste like rust in my mouth. I wake with the same knot in my chest, the same picture: two bodies under a sheet, the same shoes, the same ripped sleeve. My hands keep searching photographs that don’t exist. Isa isn’t dead. Those corpses someone dressed them in her clothes, put the smile she wore that morning on a mannequin. My gut screams fraud.

Liliana’s laugh crawls through my head. Her perfume, cheap and sweet, used to make Isa wrinkle her nose. Now I imagine it in a room where they hid the truth. Liliana brought chaos into my life the day I let her back in; I’d pay for that, if it’s her hand in this.

I trace the fabric in my mind the worn denim Isa loved, the red thread at the hem and I can feel the moment I failed her, the moment I chose anger over arms. I should have pulled her closer, shown her I could be better. Instead she ran and took my right to be a father with her. Every night my regret coils tighter.

My phone buzzes across the table and
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