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The Rope

Penulis: Bree
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-04-06 05:03:14

Cassian’s POV

The lawyer stared at me, mouth wide open, confused and horrified. “But… but you said—”

I cut him off with a cold smile. “I said I wanted to know the truth. Not that I’d set her free.”

He shook his head, dazed. “I—I don’t understand… why? Why keep the clause if it was fake to begin with?”

I tapped my finger against the armrest of my chair, letting the silence stretch.

Then I said, slowly, deliberately, “Because Reina doesn’t get to walk away just yet. Not until I decide she’s earned it.”

“But she deserves to know the truth. I thought you would want her to know,” he whispered.

I chuckled dryly. “Why act all righteous now, Mr lawyer? Weren’t you paid to tie her down with the monsters that destroyed her childhood?”

The lawyer lowered his gaze, staring at his trembling hands as if they belonged to someone else—someone filthier, weaker.

His fingers were stained with blood and sweat, the knuckles scraped from where he’d instinctively braced against Lucas’s blows. But it wasn’t
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