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CHAPTER 35: WE WAIT

Penulis: Lizzy Fash
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-03-30 20:04:55

JACQUE

I had seen my daughter struggle.

I had seen her anger, demand, and control, flexing the world to her will with nothing more than brute strength of presence.

But I had never seen her like this.

Broken.

She sat upon this hospital bed, still clad in that gown which she had dressed for her grand debut to the world—the world which she had never desired to be a part of. It was to be her moment, her unveiling. She had been powerful, radiant, untouchable.

Now, that same gown was in shreds.

Blood seeped into the soft clothing, the velvet clinging to her skin as it seemed to jeer at the illusion of how the night was supposed to turn out. The deep red stained, darkening with each passing moment, blemishing her in ways the soap and shampoo would never succeed in eradicating.

Michael's blood.

Her father's blood.

Yet she would not release him.

I stood in the doorway, watching the woman that I had hunted all my life cling to the man who raised her. The man who loved her. The man wh
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