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Chapter 14: Drawing first blood

작가: Twistella
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-06-24 18:19:12
Arabella

Painful laughter tore from my throat. It was jagged and hollow, like something broken scraping against bone.

I threw my head back and laughed, my chest ached from the force of it.

The reality—was much worse than the initial truth of things that had been dangled in front of me. Things I’d allowed myself to believe.

I had been blind.

Willfully, pathetically blind.

Tears sprang to the surface, hot and stinging, blurring the edges of my vision as I choked on another laugh.

How foolish I had been.

How small.

How stupid.

I couldn’t even argue with him. He was right to call me that.

Stupid.

Simple-minded just as he sneered.

My laughter faded into a choked gasp, my hands trembling as I pressed them to my face, nails digging into my skin as if I could claw away my own naivety.

“How long?” I pressed, my voice barely above a whisper. “How long have you been planning this?”

His lips curved, but there was no amusement in it—only a cold satisfaction.

“Years,” he said. “It took years. Pa
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