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Chapter 226: Too damaged
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2026-02-28 07:54:53
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Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 258: Broken pieces
~ Avelyn ~The gates slid open with a quiet mechanical sound, but I barely registered it. My chest had already tightened, something deep inside me bracing before my mind could catch up. People began to file out one after the other—faces I didn’t recognize, voices blending into the background but none of it stayed long enough to matter.Because then I saw her.Ariana stepped out slowly, like she was testing the ground beneath her feet, like she wasn’t entirely sure the world outside would hold her. Her hair was shorter now, softer around her face, stripped of the sharp precision she used to maintain like armor. But it wasn’t that that held me still.It was her eyes.They weren’t searching. They weren’t guarded.They were quiet.Too quiet.And it broke something in me instantly.This wasn’t the Ariana I knew—the girl who filled every space she walked into, who spoke like the world owed her attention. This was someone who had been through something and came out… dimmer. Not completely go
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 257: Falling apart
~ Avelyn ~The city didn’t welcome me back when the airplane touched down.It didn’t reject me either.It simply… existed.Unchanged in all the ways that mattered, and yet completely unfamiliar in the way it settled against my chest. The roads stretched out the same, the buildings stood where I remembered them, the air carried that same restless hum—but something about it felt distant, like I was walking through a memory that no longer belonged to me.Or maybe I was the one who didn’t belong anymore.I sat in the backseat of the taxi, my fingers resting lightly against the handle of my bag as my gaze drifted past the window. Streets I used to know so well blurred by, each turn tugging at something buried deep in my chest, something I had spent too long pretending wasn’t there.I didn’t let myself linger on it.Not yet.The car slowed eventually, pulling up in front of a house that felt both familiar and foreign at the same time. My heart tightened before I could stop it.Nothing had r
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 256: Unfinished business
~ Avelyn ~The house felt quieter than it had any right to be. Not peaceful and definitely not calm. Just… hollow.Like something had shifted in the air and left behind a space too large for me to ignore.I stood by the window longer than I should have, my phone still in my hand, the screen dark now but far from forgotten. The words replayed in my mind whether I wanted them to or not, slipping in between my thoughts, settling where they shouldn’t.This is Aria… Kyle’s fiancée.I let out a slow breath, but it didn’t ease anything.It only made the silence louder.There was no dramatic reaction, no immediate collapse or sharp pain like I might have expected. Instead, it came in something slower, something heavier. A quiet unraveling that settled beneath my ribs and stayed there, unmoving.Of course.Of course there was someone else.Kyle had always been… steady. Grounded. The kind of person who built a life with structure, with intention. Not like me. Not like the chaos I carried with m
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 255: Three days
~ Avelyn ~Dominic didn’t step inside.Somehow, that made everything worse.He remained where he was, just beyond the threshold, as though crossing into my space wasn’t necessary to take control of it. The air between us felt tight, stretched thin by everything unsaid, everything already understood.I didn’t invite him in.He didn’t ask again.Instead, he slipped one hand into his coat and pulled out a small card, holding it between his fingers for a moment before extending it toward me. I hesitated, my eyes flickering from the object to his face, searching for something—anything—that might give me room to breathe in this situation.There was none.Slowly, I reached out and took it.It was an address.A time.Three days from now.My fingers tightened slightly around the card as the meaning settled in.Dominic watched me take it in, his expression unchanged, as if this was nothing more than a simple exchange.“Three days,” he said, his voice calm, measured in a way that made it harder
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 254: Doorstep
~ Avelyn ~The man standing in front of me didn’t look surprised to see me. If anything, there was a quiet certainty in his expression, as though this moment had already played out in his mind long before I opened the door. He stood there with an ease that didn’t belong to ordinary men, dressed too neatly, too composed for someone tied to the kind of world I had tried so desperately to escape.And yet, I knew exactly who he was.I hadn’t spent enough time around him to claim familiarity, but it didn’t take familiarity to recognize danger. It lived in the way he held himself, in the stillness that wasn’t empty but controlled, deliberate. The kind of stillness that made your instincts rise before your thoughts could catch up.Dominic.My fingers tightened around the edge of the door, every instinct screaming at me to shut it, to lock it, to pretend this wasn’t happening—but my body refused to cooperate. I couldn’t move, not when his gaze had already slipped past me, uninvited, scanning
Switched at the Mafia Auction Chapter 253: Found
~ Avelyn ~Kyle didn’t say anything when he handed it to me.He didn’t look at me either.It was such a small thing, the way his fingers brushed mine for the briefest second before letting go, but it felt heavier than anything he had ever said to me. There was no anger in his face this time, no sharp edge to his voice like in the car, no accusation hanging between us. Just… absence.And somehow, that hurt more.I stood there, watching his retreating back, waiting—foolishly—for him to turn around, to say something, anything, even if it was harsh. Even if it was cruel. I would have taken that over this silence.But he didn’t stop.He didn’t turn.He just walked away like there was nothing left to hold on to.My fingers tightened around the small box in my hand, and for a moment, I didn’t open it. I just stood there, staring at it like it might burn me if I looked too closely. Like I already knew what it was, and opening it would only make it real.When I finally did, my breath caught in
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~Avelyn ~Before I could even begin to explain, Veronica zeroed the gap between us and landed a slap on my cheek. The slap came so fast I almost didn’t register it. And a sharp crack like glass breaking through a violin note cut through the ballroom.For a moment, the chandeliers blurred above
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