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Chapter 73: In Love

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Charles’ POV

Alma’s words replay in my head even after she finishes. My mind races, trying to process it all. For a while, I just stare at her, with my mind caught between rage and pity.

Rage, because if she’d told me everything sooner, I might’ve been closer to tearing Ricardo apart by now. Pity, because she was only twenty when she had seen Linda die. A kid. And if her mother pimps out girls for a living, then Alma’s entire life must’ve been a hell I can barely imagine.

She looks at me with wet, pleading eyes, waiting for me to cast judgment.

But I can’t.

Because I understand now. She wasn’t born a monster. She was made into one. Ricardo bent her until she broke, until she believed his lies. She was a victim of his Machiavellian games, same as Linda, same as the missing girls.

I take her hand in mine and my thumb brushes over her knuckles. “You were a victim,” I murmur.

Her lips part in shock, like she expected me to hate her forever. I don’t, and I can’t.

Do I hate that she kept th
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