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Chapter 11: Cornered Choice

Author: Mercy Babe
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-16 03:03:33

He closed the door behind him with the deliberate slow of a man who leaves no gap for escape. The parlor’s lamp burned low; shadows pooled like ink across the rugs. She felt the distance between them shrink the moment he stepped in, the way a storm narrows the sky.

“You shouldn’t have invited danger into the streets,” he said, voice soft and distant, as if he were giving a lecture and also delivering a verdict. He stood before her—still too composed, all dangerous angles and patience. The coat fell from his shoulders and gathered at his feet. The room felt smaller, the air thicker.

She should have fled. She should have ordered the girls to bar the doors, pulled the curtains tight, smothered the hunger back into its jar. Instead she found herself frozen—part terror, part adrenaline, part a raw, unexpected ache in the hollow beneath her ribs. He had the pull of a predator and the polish of a man accustomed to getting what he wanted. Both traits were intoxicating.

“Why are you here?” she
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