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Chapter Twenty Nine: Confusion

Author: Queenie
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-10 02:29:46

Marceline’s eyes locked onto Cross, refusing to accept the words she just heard. It felt like a cruel joke, one so dark it threatened to shatter what little hope she was clinging to. Her voice trembled, barely above a whisper, but laced with desperate disbelief.

“You’re joking, right?”

Cross didn’t meet her gaze. Instead, he turned his face away, like a man hiding behind a mask of indifferent cruelty.

“What if I was joking?” His voice was cold, edged with a dangerous mockery as if to test how far he could push her sanity.

Marceline nodded, a hollow, shaky gesture more out of instinct than belief. She wanted to believe he was lying, that her mother wasn’t trapped in some nightmare of silence, unreachable and fading. But deep inside, a darker voice whispered, relentless and sharp.

This isn’t a joke.

The same voice she’d learned to trust in moments when everything else was chaos. It told her that Cross’s eyes — hard and unyielding — held no flicker of falsehood. It told her this was anot
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