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021 - Ashina
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2025-05-28 21:00:52I trailed after Dawn back into the building down the elevator with Kael not too far behind. They were fast in their search. So fast that it made me wonder, bitterly, how someone so efficient could have failed to look for me all these years, if what he claimed was true.
The thought struck a raw nerve.
I swallowed hard and forced it down. No. I wasn’t going to that to myself, instead I let myself focus on the fact that the one who bit Maya was not too far from us.
Dawn slowed her steps beside a different metal door from where Calen was in and threw a sideways glance my way with a raised brow. “You want to take the lead—?”
I shook my head before Dawn finished asking. I didn’t care if this was a form of taunt from her on whether I was able to handle this or not. I knew this was different and I wasn’t a fool who didn’t know how to back down.
This was too different from the case with Calen because there was no trying to prove this one was innocent. I did
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Fated To Ruin You 022 - Ashina
Every part of me was on fire.My steps echoed against the concrete as Kael guided me out of the dungeon, the door slamming shut behind us. My blood roared in my ears, louder than my boots hitting the concrete. Louder than Kael’s steady steps beside me. Louder than everything except for those final words echoing over and over again in my head like a siren, endless, and impossible to ignore.Test Kael’s blood.My fists clenched around the cooler bag, my fingers numb from how tightly I gripped it. Inside it was the vial of venom and the extracted fangs. A grotesque reminder of everything that I’d just witnessed and a semblance of hope.But that hope was drowned by those three words as they throbbed in my temples, as the question of what if that’s true rang next to them.I didn’t realize when we got outside again until the cold night air slapped me awake.When had it gotten dark?My heart skipped a b
Fated To Ruin You 021 - Ashina
I trailed after Dawn back into the building down the elevator with Kael not too far behind. They were fast in their search. So fast that it made me wonder, bitterly, how someone so efficient could have failed to look for me all these years, if what he claimed was true.The thought struck a raw nerve.I swallowed hard and forced it down. No. I wasn’t going to that to myself, instead I let myself focus on the fact that the one who bit Maya was not too far from us.Dawn slowed her steps beside a different metal door from where Calen was in and threw a sideways glance my way with a raised brow. “You want to take the lead—?”I shook my head before Dawn finished asking. I didn’t care if this was a form of taunt from her on whether I was able to handle this or not. I knew this was different and I wasn’t a fool who didn’t know how to back down.This was too different from the case with Calen because there was no trying to prove this one was innocent. I did
Fated To Ruin You 020 - Ashina
I should have felt vindicated or even smug when the woman had rushed back in with a look of surprise on her face. I had made him talk after all without violence like I’d said.But all I felt was fire licking my veins and a fresh weight sitting squarely in my chest.Guilt.Heavily pressing down on my bones like a punishment I couldn’t shake as Calen’s words echoed in my skull.Her worst mistake was befriending you.Those words hit harder than normal because I’d tried not to think like that. But he wasn’t wrong. Maya was only lying in that lab bed with a foreign infection rotting her from the inside because she’d chosen to love me like a sister. If what he said about Maya why the order chose me, then it was my fault.I didn’t wait around for anyone’s reaction and didn’t look back. The room felt suffocating so I pushed past the open the door and stumbled into
Fated To Ruin You 019 - Ashina
I took in a slow, deep breath as I willed my racing heart to still, ignoring the weight of Kael’s gaze burning into me. My eyes flickered to a worn chair that stood against the wall in the far corner, its legs were crooked like it had been dragged around too many times for interrogations just like this.I made my way over to it and quietly pulled it back to where I was standing before, trying not to let the legs scrape against the concrete floor, all while my mind raced.There were probably a hundred different things to say or ask, but none of which I could pinpoint as the right approach here.I just needed something to prove that he was the wrong man. Because if I couldn’t do that much, I was certain they would keep torturing him until he said something useful to them.My fingers gripped the edge of the wooden arms of the chair once I sat down to keep them from trembling.Up close, the blood on his face had dried into dark patches across his jaw, bruises blooming beneath split skin.
Fated To Ruin You 018 - Ashina
“What the hell is going on?” I practically growled, my voice slicing through the room as I stormed toward the bloodied bartender tied to the chair.The sight of him was like a punch to my gut.His was slumped over with blood crusting along the side of his mouth and from the blue bruises I could see from the side of his face, it was obvious that was swollen shut. He was barely conscious, wheezing with each breath as blood tricked down his shirt, staining the collar of his shirt. He looked… ruined. And all I could think was how?How had this happened between the time I last saw him and now?“How—what the hell did you do to him?!” I snapped over my shoulder before dropping to my knees in front of him. “Hey. Hey, it’s okay. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry.”I reached for him, brushing at the dried blood gently, my fingers trembling. He flinched even at the light way I touched him, and it splintered something inside me.The
Fated To Ruin You 017 - Ashina
I swore under my breath, dragging my gaze back toward the bar, my mind spinning useless in circles.I hadn’t really gotten anything. Just a vague description of the attitude of the man and he was creepier than usual creepiness. But when I’d spoken about the bite, Kael had reacted. Something had clicked in him. I didn’t know what exactly, but it was enough to make my stomach twist.He knew something. Maybe not everything, but something.And he was using my need for answers to manipulated me. Just like Dr. Veyra had done.I hated this. Hated that I needed answers and that the two people I loathed most knew more than I did and didn’t hesitate to find a way to use it against me. Hated that Maya’s life might now be hanging in the hands of a man who’d shattered me.My life was once again not my own. And gods, that burned.With a heavy sigh, I turned away, and stalked toward the black SUV, ignoring the subtle look of victory on Kael’s face and the neutral nod from the man still holding the d
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