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2026-11-07 13:55:08
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Rise From Ashes Teasing her
The moment the weight lifted, Killian’s whole body went slack. His breath left him in a long, shuddering sob, and his swollen hands dropped limply onto the concrete. He didn’t even have the strength to thank his brother. He just lay there, wrecked, staring at the ceiling.“There,” Victoria said, satisfied, cradling the bag against her chest like a lunchbox. “All present. They were expensive.”“Expensive,” Roman repeated faintly, to no one.Lucas stood up slowly. His face had gone completely blank, the way it did before his men learned what angry really meant. He looked at his brother, then at the knife in the brazier, then at the small barefoot woman with a bag of biting ants who smiled up at him as though nothing in the world were wrong.“Okay,” he said, very quietly. “Come here.”“Why?” she began, “I’m not finished with...”She never completed the sentence. He bent, caught her around the thighs, and hoisted her onto his shoulder like a sack of flour.“Put me down!” Victoria shrieked
Rise From Ashes I am her husband
“I only gave Cordelia the power to take any man she wanted!” Killian shouted, his voice cracking apart with pain. “That’s all! I didn’t touch you, I swear! I just opened the door for her!”“Mm-hm,” Victoria said pleasantly, and made another thin, careful cut along his forearm, the way one slices a ribbon from a gift. “Keep going. You’re doing so well.”Outside the old castle, the morning had turned bright and hard. A convoy of black cars rolled up the hill and stopped at the broken gate in a line of dust, and the Blackwood men poured out with vests on and guns raised, ready for a war.Lucas stepped out last. Roman climbed out behind him, wearing two bulletproof vests, as ordered, and looking like a very nervous turtle.Then Roman raised his eyes and stopped walking.Before them rose a fortress. The ruined walls had been rebuilt in dark stone. Lanterns hung along the battlements, and pennants snapped from the towers. In the courtyard, rows of men trained in perfect formation, and not o
Rise From Ashes The answer
“Okay,” she said. “Now that you remember me, rich kid, do you also remember what you and Cordelia did to me?”Killian lifted his head slowly. His face was grey, his lips were shaking, and for a moment he honestly looked lost. “What... what are you talking about?”“Five years ago.” She said it lightly, still chewing. “A party. A glass of something sweet. A room upstairs with the door locked from the outside. A girl who woke up the next morning and didn’t understand why she couldn’t remember her own night.”The colour that remained drained out of his face.“I was assaulted, Killian,” Victoria said, in the same pleasant tone, as if she were reading out a recipe. “By you. Arranged by my stepsister. And then my father sent me away like I was the one who’d done something shameful.” She swallowed the last of the bacon, wiped her fingers on a napkin, and folded it carefully. “So, tell me. Whose idea was it?”Victoria did not open the box. She was far too patient for that.She walked to the sh
Rise From Ashes waste of effort
She returned to her chair, picked up her coffee, and took another unhurried sip. Blood ran down his side in a bright, steady ribbon, dripping onto the floor with a soft tap, tap, tap that filled the silence between his ragged breaths. She watched it fall with the bored interest of someone checking the weather.“Dave,” she called, without raising her voice.The door at the top of the stairs opened instantly, as if he had been standing with his ear against it. “Yes, boss?”“Bring me some breakfast. In here.” She considered. “Bacon. And the good juice, not the one that tastes like a pencil.”A long, horrified pause drifted down the stairs. “...In the basement, boss?”“Is there a problem with the basement?”“No, boss. No problem at all. Right away, boss.”His footsteps pounded away at a speed that suggested he intended to be somewhere very far from here very soon.Victoria turned back to her prisoner. Killian’s head had dropped forward, chin against his chest, his eyes squeezed shut and h
Rise From Ashes Hello rich kid
“Boss!” Dave, the man from yesterday, sprinted into the hall carrying a tray with both hands and the stiffness of a bomb-disposal technician. He bowed so low that the toast slid dangerously close to the edge. “Right here, boss. Eggs, bacon, toast, fruit, two kinds of juice because we didn’t know which. Coffee as well.”“Put it on the table.” She took the coffee from the tray instead and breathed in the steam like a woman who had been reunited with a lost love. “I’ll eat after I visit my prisoner. Bob!”Bob materialised from nowhere, a square man with a shaved head and the posture of a soldier. “Boss.”“Keep the training going. After breakfast, run the drill again. And Bob.” She sipped. “Nobody goes near the basement. Not for water, not for curiosity, and absolutely not for screams.”“What if there are screams?”“Then they’re working,” Victoria said sweetly, and walked away.The basement door sat at the end of a cold corridor, an iron thing with a rusted handle. It groaned open as she
Rise From Ashes She doesn't miss
He heard the words only after they had left his mouth. Roman’s head snapped round. Leo’s eyebrows climbed slowly towards his hairline.“I mean,” Lucas said, far too fast, “I mean that I am furious. Furious. That is a security breach. That is a threat to my family.” He shoved a hand through his hair, then did it again, harder, until it stood up in black spikes and he looked like a man who had been dragged through a hedge.He breathed in through his nose, out through his mouth, and fought the ridiculous, treacherous smile trying to creep onto his face.“Papa,” Leo said kindly, patting his arm with a milk-sticky hand, “you’re being weird.”“I’m not being weird.”“You are a bit red,” Roman offered.“One more word, Roman, and you’re back to learning sign language.”Lucas leaned in close to his son and asked softly, the way one approaches a skittish deer, "Leo, do you know where we can find the pretty lady?"Leo's eyes narrowed. He looked at his father for a long, suspicious moment, the way
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