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Sold Before the Bond

Author: Felycia Shatt
last update publish date: 2026-04-04 02:26:34

Mabella's POV

"We move in an hour."

The rogue said it to Annabella like I wasn't sitting three feet away. Like I was furniture. Like the blindfold they'd tied over my eyes had also switched off my ears.

I filed that away.

People got careless around things they didn't consider threats.

The blindfold was thick but the knot at the back was amateur, done fast by someone who'd been rattled and hadn't slowed down enough to do it properly. I could feel the looseness every time I turned my head. Not en
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