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Bleeding Petals

Author: Sage_Ryuuzen
last update publish date: 2026-03-30 15:00:22

Martha finally stepped back, her chest heaving with the exertion of her work. She wiped a bead of sweat from her forehead with the back of a hand that had just spent an hour inflicting pain.

​"I’m tired of beating them," she muttered, her voice thick with a sickening sense of accomplishment. She looked down at us—two broken women on a floor with the boredom of someone who had just finished a tedious chore.

"Give her the dresses we prepared," she ordered, gesturing to the girls standing by the r
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