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Chapter seventy five.

Auteur: ORJI
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Selina's POV.

I felt Malik beside me shift, we were still on our knees, our hands tied, but the mood had shifted so radically it was like we were already free. He turned to me slowly, our eyes meeting.

“You okay?” he whispered.

I nodded, but my voice was stuck in my throat, I was trying so hard to process everything, I mean like I wouldn't have believed in a million years that Declan would actually fight for me, for Malik, despite everything.

I watched as he excused himself from the crowd and strode toward us.

He moved past the awestruck guards who were still standing over us, now looking more confused than threatening. They parted for him as if the battle had redrawn every line of power.

His hands trembled slightly as he reached for the ropes.

“Let me get these off,” he murmured.

I watched in stunned silence as he untied Malik’s wrists first, then mine. My fingers fumbled slightly, maybe from pain or nerves, I couldn’t tell, but when the ropes fell away, a flood of relief washed th
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ORJI
Hi Laura, thanks for reading up to this point, I promise you, if you could take a look at as little as two chapters from here, you'd be hooked fr. Eva’s struggles is nothing easier like her mom’s, believe me, It just got a lot better.
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Laura V
Looks like Selina and Malik's story ends here. All the rest of the chapters appear to be happening 20 years later, with Eva as the female lead. That could be a good story but I'd be more interested in it if it were its own standalone book.
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