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Chapter seventy one.

Author: ORJI
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-31 21:43:50

Selina's POV.

The first thing I noticed was the cold.

Not the kind of cold that prickles your skin or makes you shiver, but the kind that wraps around your bones, like it had seeped into me while I was unconscious.

My head throbbed heavily, my limbs wouldn’t move, and when I finally tried to shift, pain bloomed in my wrists.

Chains.

And not just any chain, wolvesbane laced, I could feel it.

A sharp gasp escaped my lips as my senses finally returned. My throat was dry, my mouth tasted like dirt, and my body ached terribly.

Then I heard it, faint at first,

“Selina…”

There it was again.

“Selina…”

A voice, deep, ragged with concern. Familiar.

“Malik?” I croaked, my voice barely above a whisper.

My eyes fluttered open fully this time, and the shadows around me took shape, damp stone walls, rusted iron bars, darkness.

A dungeon.

A real dungeon.

And across from me, slumped against the wall, chained by his neck and wrists like a caged beast, was Malik.

He looked like hell. Sweat clung to
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