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The hand that stopped the slap

Author: Feesat pen
last update publish date: 2026-09-12 20:43:00

Lyra’s POV

I braced for the sting, my whole body rigid, waiting.

It never came.

Instead, I heard a sharp gasp not mine, but Wendy’s followed by the unmistakable sound of a grip closing hard around bone. My eyes flew open.

Luca stood beside me, his fingers wrapped tightly around Wendy’s wrist, holding her hand suspended in the air, inches from my face. His expression was unlike anything I’d seen from him before not the cold fury I’d witnessed with his father, not the possessive anger I’d seen di
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