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Chapter 104

Penulis: Feesa
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-07-22 16:00:03

VENUS

I didn’t sleep.

Couldn’t.

Every time I closed my eyes, the darkness didn’t bring rest. It brought memory. The sting of Billy’s hand across my face. The taste of blood. The echo of my own heartbeat thrashing in my chest. And beneath it all, the overwhelming silence that crawled into your head and made a home.

The concrete floor scraped my back with every movement, biting through the thin cotton of my shirt like sandpaper on skin. The ropes around my wrists and ankles burned with every twit
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Even if Martha Astor wasn't Venus's biological mother, she raised her how could she do what she did.? How could she support Dain after all he's done? Stole the money Venus had saved ,worked bloody overtime for went without eating to save for her chemo. Will she call Aaron?
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