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Chapter 16: At The Table

Author: SarahBlythe
last update publish date: 2026-07-04 01:37:45

Elodie's POV

I don't want to be here. I seriously want to be anywhere else but in the same room as these blood-thirsty, heartless monsters.

At this moment, the dark room was ten times more preferable.

It was a room full of the people who had abducted and maltreated me. Not just me, but the other girls as well. They were eating and drinking and laughing, all comfortably. Like what they do to innocent girls isn't something to have sleepless nights over.

And worst of all, I was seated on my capt
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