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Chapter 73 – Healing and Redemption

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Chapter 73 – Healing and Redemption

Noah Blake

I’d waited so long for this.

To have her like this—surrendered, trusting me with her body and soul.

For weeks, I’d held back, restrained myself, preparing to deserve every inch of her. Juliet wasn’t just a woman to me. She was healing. The calm after years of war.

And now, seeing her like this—vulnerable, beautiful, submissive—I should’ve felt complete. But the sound of that word hit me like a punch to the gut.

“Star.”

The safeword. The one I thought she’d never need to use. And yet, it came from her lips… trembling, broken, frightened.

I pulled away immediately. She was shaking, eyes glazed, chest rising and falling too fast. My heart simply stopped.

Damn it.

I should’ve noticed. I should’ve stopped sooner. I should’ve remembered that the last time I touched her neck, she reacted the same way: Shallow breaths, distant stare, tears, and a plea to stop.

But this time was worse.

Because now she trusted me enough to surrender, and still, I f
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