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Chapter one hundred and forty-eight

Author: DLORD
last update publish date: 2026-08-01 11:48:56

Bella’s POV

The door didn’t lock from the inside. That was the first thing I noticed once I’d stopped shaking long enough to actually think.

Whoever had built this place had built it to keep things in, not to keep them comfortable, and comfort had apparently never extended to something as basic as an interior bolt. I tested the iron at my wrists again, twisting slow, feeling for any give in the metal, and found none. Whatever had been used to forge these restraints, it hadn’t been designed by s
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