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Chapter 64 - The Threat

Author: Joanna Jade
last update publish date: 2026-05-27 15:34:27

Zayden’s POV

Bella was still on my mind. Annoyingly so.

I adjusted the cuffs of my shirt as I walked through the underground parking garage beneath one of my buildings.

Her words kept replaying.

“I will never give myself to you.”

I scoffed.

Women said many things when they were angry.

Bella especially.

She could barely look at me without reacting.

Barely stand near me without shaking.

Yet somehow she expected me to believe she felt nothing.

Ridiculous.

I unlocked my car and slid into the driver
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