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Shadows Between Us

Author: DessySly
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Chapter One Hundred and Six

Aria’s POV

The lights exploded above us, raining tiny shards like fireflies before the chamber was swallowed whole by darkness. My breath caught in my throat. The sudden silence pressed in, broken only by the thundering of my pulse and the rasp of Julian’s breathing somewhere close.

But it wasn’t the dark that terrified me. It was Celeste’s words, still echoing like poison through my veins.

Assigned.

A piece in his game.

Not chance. Not choice.

My body shook. I wrapped my arms around myself as though I could hold together the splintering pieces of my heart.

“Aria” Julian’s voice cut through the void, thick with desperation. “Don’t listen to her. She twists everything.”

“Then tell me she’s lying.” My own voice sounded strange to my ears, sharp, cracked, trembling with fury and something far worse: fear. “Say the words, Julian. Tell me I wasn’t just some pawn you were ordered to seduce.”

A pause. Too long. Too heavy. My lungs seized on the silence.

Then: “It
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