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Chapter 19: Behind Bars

Author: Pearl Cole
last update publish date: 2026-05-05 14:33:57

They drag me through the manor.

My feet barely keep up with the guards as they pull me down a corridor I have never seen before. My arm hurts from how tightly one of them is gripping it, and every time I try to slow down or ask a question, the grip tightens.

“Wait...” I try again, my voice coming out strained. “You are making a mistake.”

No one answers me.

I'm taken downstairs into a part of the manor that does not look like the rest of it.

We stop in front of a metal door. One of the guards un
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