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30: How Do You Want Me To Punish You?

Author: Lavender Pen
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-25 16:55:28

ALEXA

I couldn't remember the last time I slept without jolting up in bed from a wicked nightmare. It had been three days since Octavia's death, but for some reason, it felt as though a decade had passed. I was pacing in circles in my room, trying not to give in to the pressure building in my chest. My thoughts were stuck in a derailed loop, playing that one haunting image again and again. The photo of Octavia's corpse.

My phone buzzed on the coffee table, and I nearly jumped out of my skin, my heart rate spiking up.

Swallowing hard, I reached for it and picked it up. There was a new message from an unknown number.

Great. Whoever they were, they were certainly not sending me a message to ask me how my day was going. Pinching the bridge of my nose, I unlocked the phone, and a text slid in.

'You owe us. But poor Sofia doesn't.'

I blinked, my mind reeling. There was no way they had Sofia. Roman was with her. He was supposed to be protecting—

A new image popped in, and I momentarily
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