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69~ Cost of Stepping Into Hell

Author: Mei Ae
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-21 20:44:04

Fiona’s POV

I stood frozen.

My knife was still pressed at Kael’s throat, my hand shaking terribly, the metallic smell of his blood that was thick in the air making its way through my nose and down to my stomach, where it made me sick with every breath I took.

His confession about the baby, every word of it, every lie wrapped in the silk voice of his, wouldn’t stop ringing in my mind.

A part of me wanted—so badly—to drive the blade deeper into his throat and end every manipulation he would ever attempt again. To shut him up permanently and stop him from dragging my pup, who he knows nothing about other than it was his seed, into his twisted games.

But another part of me, the part that once loved him desperately to believe every lie he told, every promise he made, every soft word he whispered into my ear, that part… couldn’t move to finish things off once and for all.

I pulled back abruptly, stumbling away from him, panting really hard. His warriors rushed forward the second I let go of
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