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277 Unfinished Business

Penulis: Karima Sa'ad Usman
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-08-29 07:22:31

Natalie

After Mom left, the walls of the room felt too tight, like they were pressing in on me. My thoughts buzzed with her words, her decision, the secret I carried like a blade under my tongue. I couldn’t sit still. Adrian was still in his meeting downstairs, and if I stayed here any longer, I was going to claw through the silence.

So I slipped out.

The hallway was quiet except for the faint hum of voices from deeper in the manor. When I reached the grand staircase, I froze.

Alison.

She was j
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  • Fated In Darkness   286 The Dawn of Vengeance

    NatalieThe drive back to Adrian’s estate was quiet, but inside me, nothing was still. The darkness outside the car’s windows matched the storm in my chest. Every jolt of the wheels on the road reminded me of Martina, her laughter when she ordered me dragged from Adrian’s home, the fear she tried to carve into me, the helplessness I had drowned in.I hadn’t forgotten. And I wasn’t about to forgive.By the time we arrived, my anger had settled into something sharper, colder, like a blade waiting for the right throat. Adrian stayed behind with his father and the elders to finalize the fate of Dragomir and Volodymir’s cursed bodies. I told him I had unfinished business. He knew who it concerned.Martina was taken to one of the high rooms in the estate, where I had her secured exactly as I instructed, silver shackles around her wrists and ankles, iron chains anchoring her to the stone floor of the balcony. She hissed and writhed as they bound her, but there was no escape. Not here. Not now

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  • Fated In Darkness   145 Surrender In Silk

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  • Fated In Darkness   135 Let The Monsters Remember

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