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Chapter 23: Decoy

Author: Divine
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-22 23:24:01

He grabbed my neck from behind with his strong fingers bending me down and placing my head on a pane, the evening sun beating against my forehead.

The people cheered violently, hugging each other and jumping around like killing me would be the end of all their problems.

A man with a huge giant-like figure walked up on stage, his face masked, I could only glimpse his scary eyes.

He bounced the tail of the axe in his hand and raised it up.

My eyes teared up, my legs trembling. My breath seized as panic set into me.

Then boom! The axe landed on the young lady’s neck, her head falling to the ground in the sack her face was covered in.

Zane pulled my neck back to him from the pane of the wall that made the window, “You see that? That's what they do. That's what they'd do to you without a second thought."

My breath echoed in the room like a vacuum, it was a small prison cell I've been put in to await my execution.

The lady that died, that was me. They had covered her face and put her in my
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