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Shattered

Author: Bree
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-02 03:54:56

Isabella’s POV

I don’t remember how I got into the car. One minute I was standing in that cold police station hallway, staring at the empty space where Damien had been dragged away, and the next I was in the back seat of an SUV, Agnes on one side cradling my head against her shoulder, Ellie on the other holding my hand like I might float away if she let go.

I couldn’t stop shaking.

Every breath felt like broken glass. My chest was too tight, my skin too hot, my mind too loud. I kept seeing his face…those dark eyes pleading with me, the way his voice cracked when he said my name. And then the mask. The hotel room. The morning after. Him gone. Me alone, bleeding, terrified, ruined.

It was him. All of it was him.

Agnes kept stroking my hair, whispering soft things I couldn’t really hear over the roaring in my ears. Ellie was crying quietly, wiping her face with the sleeve of her hoodie, squeezing my fingers every few seconds like she was checking I was still there.

She likely thought I w
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