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10. FINALLY BACK HOME- HELL

Author: AUTHOR_NEON
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-07 12:05:47
CAELEN VALENTINE’S POV

That night, I stayed with Aria.

She clung to me like I was the last solid thing in her crumbling world, her quiet sobs pressing against my chest. I held her, our bodies curved into one another, not out of romance, not out of lust—just something raw and human. The desperate need to be held, to be understood.

Her tears soaked my shirt, her breaths growing calmer as exhaustion claimed her. I ran my fingers through her hair, slow and careful, anchoring her—anchoring myself.

Somewhere in that silence, I found peace. A fragile, fleeting kind, but peace nonetheless.

I watched her sleep for what felt like hours. Her features softened, free from fear, free from Lucian’s suffocating shadow. In that moment, she didn’t look like someone carrying pain too vast for her frame. She looked like someone I could protect. Someone I would protect.

I had made my choice.

Tomorrow, I would leave this cursed house behind.

I would take Aria and the child—our child—far away from Lucian T
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  • MY BROTHER-IN-LAW   122. KIM SEIRRA

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