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Chapter 25 - The Price of Freedom

Penulis: Melanin Bella
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**ARIA'S POV**

The room's walls were polished. A wide bed sat in the corner dressed in dark silk, and an iron barred window that let in little light.

It reminded me too much of the auction pens, although it was nothing compared to it.

That place was a hell I could never imagine going back to.

This...this was just a holding cell.

I could survive it.

I sat at the edge of the bed, mind racing. I kept my hands clasp in front of me to avoid getting too comfortable.

But how? Why?

Questions blurred in my ears, questions I didn't have any answers to.

A single tear slipped free before I could stop it.

I wiped it away immediately, pressing the heel of my hand against my cheek hard enough to hurt.

No.

I wouldn't cry.

I needed to figure out what was going on despite the terror clawing at my throat.

The door flung open without warning.

Two guards walked in.

One of them was scarred almost everywhere. He held a tray of food and water and dropped it on the floor near the bed and stepped back, w
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