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Chapter 017

Author: Avalyn Noir
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-30 20:23:22

Kayla’s POV

Silence. Heavy. Crushing.

Only the sound of three uneven breaths filled the wrecked apartment—mine sharp and shallow, Damien’s ragged, Liam’s deep and uneven. The air tasted of dust and sweat. Shards of glass glittered faintly like frost across the floor, the curtains by the balcony swaying with the night breeze the masked man had left in his wake.

I pressed my back harder against the wall, the plaster cold and unyielding, my body trembling so violently I thought I might shatter like the glass around me. My palms were scraped and slick from the cuts I’d gotten crawling backward. My heart felt like it had migrated into my throat, pulsing so hard it hurt.

“You’re safe now,” Damien murmured without looking at me. His voice was low, the kind of low you use to calm a child or a cornered animal. He kept his eyes fixed on Liam, his body angled like a shield between us, one hand still slightly raised.

Safe?

The word cracked in my head like glass under pressure. My eyes darted to t
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