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Countdown to Freedom

Author: AALIYAH
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-27 05:11:28

Nora’s POV

“You have seven days .... just seven days to kill that man and afterwards kill yourself. That’s the only thing you can do to uphold your honor after you die” he made known, grabbing his box of cigarettes and relaxing in his chair as if nothing had happened.

He lit the cigarette, stuck it between his lips, before puffing out smoke.

I just stared at him – at the man who called himself my father. The man who didn’t hesitate to sentence his own daughter to death. He had always caused me nothing but pain since my childhood. He never made me feel at peace, he never cared about how I felt– all he cared about was himself, his gang and his empire which I planned on turning to ashes in his lifetime.

He always made me feel love was a weakness, but he was wrong.

Falling in love with Liam didn’t make me weak – it made me human. It made me realize there was another reason to live apart from bloodshed. But that man sitting in front of me, wouldn’t understand that.

I wasn’t goin
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