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The Future He'll Never Reach

The Future He'll Never Reach

بواسطة:  爆爆爆米花مكتمل
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Tragic Love

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Feel-Good Story

Elf

Girl Power

Mistress

Winning Back the Wife

Cheating

Face Slapping

The first time my boyfriend, Jason Calloway, brought me to meet his friends, I wore a scarf to hide the hickeys he'd left the night before. Halfway through dinner, his only female friend suddenly yanked my scarf off. "No wonder you're wearing a scarf in this heat, putting on airs. We're all adults here. What haven't we seen? Looks like you and Jason had quite the wild night..." Jason knew how easily I got embarrassed and quickly tried to cut her off. But she pulled down her own collar instead. "See this bite mark? Jason did it. I didn't even bother putting ointment on it afterward. I just left it out in the open, telling everyone Jason's my little lapdog. That's how a woman earns her place!" Jason frowned, his gaze fixed on the pale, full swell of Vivian Hale's chest, then pulled her hand away, his expression darkening. "There are people here! Put your clothes back!" Then he turned to me. "That's just how my friends are, no filter. Have a few drinks with us and you'll warm up to them." I watched his hand pressing Vivian's collar closed and let out a cold laugh, pushing my chair back from the table. "I'll pass on the drinks. If you enjoy being some other woman's lapdog, don't let me stop you." We Elves never date dogs.

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第1章
I turned and walked toward the door of the private dining room.The room went dead silent for a moment, then burst into laughter."Whoa, Jason, your little girlfriend's got quite the temper.""Seriously, getting jealous over Vivian? She can't take a joke."Jason's humiliation burned. His expression darkened like a thundercloud.Hurried footsteps sounded behind me.He seized my wrist."Aria, what the hell is wrong with you?"His voice was low, thick with impatience and warning."Vivian just speaks her mind. She's always hung out with the guys. It was just a joke."Do you really have to blow this out of proportion and embarrass me in front of everyone?"I wrenched my hand free.An angry red mark bloomed around my wrist."A joke?"I looked at him coldly."Who jokes around with bite marks on their chest?"That bite mark was yours, wasn't it?"Jason's gaze flickered.He rubbed his nose without thinking, his go-to tell whenever guilt got the better of him."We were playing truth or dare and
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Theron's reply didn't come until dawn."Dissolving the bond requires you to reclaim the Elven artifact you entrusted to him.""The Silver Leaf Vine bracelet must be severed by your own hand.""Once the severance begins, your body will endure immense pain.""Are you certain about this?"I replied with a single word without hesitation: "Yes."The bracelet had always been locked in the safe in Jason's study.He'd said it was the symbol of our love, that it needed to be kept secure, never to be touched by anyone.Now I saw it for what it was: a shackle he'd used to keep me trapped.The next afternoon, sunlight glared through the windows.Jason finally came home.He reeked of alcohol.And the rose perfume Vivian always wore.The two scents mingled into something nauseating.He tossed a black velvet box onto the bed."Alright, I'm not holding last night against you."Vivian picked this out as a peace offering for you. She's tough on the outside but soft on the inside."Mom's birthday party i
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Below the photo came a voice message."Aria, Jason said this anklet really complements my skin tone."He even knelt down and put it on me himself."He promised to make me his date for the gala tonight, so why don't you just stay home and think about what you've done."I stared at the bracelet on the screen.How could a sacred artifact of the Elves end up on a human's ankle?It was the only medium through which the life bond could be dissolved. I had to get it back.I walked to the window and looked down from the third floor.An Elven body was far stronger than a human one, but the backlash from the bond's dissolution had already begun.A dull ache throbbed in my chest, as though a thousand needles were piercing it.I pushed the window open and swung down the drainpipe with practiced ease.A jolt of pain shot through my knees on landing.I ignored it and hailed a cab straight to the hotel.The banquet hall blazed with light, filled with well-dressed guests.Jason's mother, Patricia Call
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"Ahhh!"Vivian screamed."It hurts! Jason, help! This thing is biting me!"Jason panicked completely. He grabbed at the bracelet, but its razor edge sliced his fingers open.Vivian abandoned all pretense and clawed desperately at the clasp.Her nails snapped. Blood streamed freely.She finally pried the clasp loose.She flung the blood-streaked bracelet to the ground as if hurling a venomous snake."Get it away! Get this thing away from me!"I fought through the searing pain in my chest and walked over, one step at a time.I bent down and picked up the Silver Leaf bracelet.The moment it returned to my palm, its cool touch eased the tide of agony roiling inside me.Jason rose from the floor and stared at me, fury blazing in his eyes.He looked at Vivian's mangled ankle, then charged toward me.Crack!His palm struck my face in a vicious slap."Aria."Jason loomed over me, his voice heavy with judgment and disappointment."How did I never see this side of you, all these sleazy little tr
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The light above the emergency room stayed red all night.The hospital's top blood specialists were called back in the middle of the night, rotating in and out of the room.Patricia sat in the corridor, trembling from head to toe.Her pearl necklace had scattered across the floor, forgotten.Vivian sat in a corner with her ankle wrapped in gauze, her eyes darting restlessly.She couldn't understand how Jason, who had been brimming with arrogant confidence just hours ago, was now bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, unconscious on the floor.The emergency room door swung open with a bang.The head of hematology stepped out, holding a stack of critical-condition forms.Patricia stumbled toward him, clutching his sleeve."Doctor! How is my son? He's always been perfectly healthy. He barely even catches a cold!"He flipped through the test results, his frown deepening with every page."Mrs. Calloway, your son has a rare blood-wasting syndrome. Did you really not know? It's medical
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In the Elven realm, beneath the Tree of Life.I lay in a spring that glowed with emerald light.Pain was remaking my broken body. Forcing the life-sharing bond apart hadn't just drained half my Elven power; it had shattered my once-pristine magical pathways.Theron stood at the water's edge, staff in hand, his expression grave."Aria, you nearly destroyed the future of the Elven people for the sake of one selfish human."The bond is broken. You've survived, but you will never wield healing magic again."I lay with my eyes closed, feeling new power stir inside me like something breaking free of its chrysalis.I had lost my healing abilities. In their place, I'd gained the most devastating form of Elven destruction magic."I understand, High Elder."I opened my eyes. My once-dark pupils had turned a deep gold."Humans don't deserve Elven mercy. They deserve judgment."Theron nodded with approval."Good. Severing all ties with the mortal world is the trial every Elven High Priestess must
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"Aria... Ari..."Jason's voice was raw and broken.He shoved aside the bodyguard trying to help him. His legs buckled, and he crumpled from the wheelchair to the marble floor.The surrounding guests backed away, clearing a wide space around him.Jason paid no attention to the stares.He dragged himself across the marble on hands and knees, hauling his wasted body forward.Every movement brought ragged gasps and stifled coughing.He finally reached the bottom of the staircase.He stretched out a skeletal hand, reaching for the hem of my gown."Ari... I finally found you..."Do you have any idea what this past month has been like for me?"He lifted his face, smeared with tears and blood, his voice reduced to nothing but panic and pleading."I was wrong... I know I was wrong!"I shouldn't have treated you that way. I shouldn't have taken everything you gave me for granted..."Please, forgive me. Come home with me?"I stood two steps above him, looking down with cold detachment.No retreat
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He dug a USB drive from his suit pocket and hurled it at the LED screen control panel behind him."Play it!"A bodyguard stepped forward and plugged it in.The screen lit up, projecting its contents for the entire room.Bank statements and surveillance footage.Vivian had used Jason's fingerprint while he was passed out drunk to unlock his phone and transfer massive sums.She'd spent the money keeping a male model and buying herself a villa.Audio recordings followed."Jason, that moron, really thinks I enjoy hanging out with his idiot friends?"He's nothing but a meal ticket."Aria, that dull little mouse, is the easiest mark alive. All I have to do is fake a few tears and Jason goes after her like a rabid dog."Once that dead man walking finally kicks it, who else is the Calloway money going to?"Every word rang through the banquet hall with crystal clarity.The color drained from Vivian's face completely.She collapsed on the floor, shaking uncontrollably, too stunned to form a sing
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Thud! Thud! Thud!Patricia slammed her forehead into the marble floor, drawing blood after only a few blows."Aria! This is all Jay's fault! It's my fault for not raising him right!"I'm begging you, for the sake of everything you two had over the past three years, have mercy and save his life!"If you save him, everything the Calloways own is yours! I'm on my knees!"Tears and snot streamed down her face, every trace of the society matron gone.The guests exchanged uneasy glances. The atmosphere pressed down like a physical weight.I looked down at this mother and son.Back when I'd lived in the Calloway household, curled up in my room drenched in cold sweat from the bond's backlash, what had Patricia said?She'd called me dramatic and accused me of faking. Then she'd forced me out of bed and into the kitchen to make Jason chicken soup."Everything we had?"I let out a cold laugh and took an ancient parchment scroll from Kael."Mrs. Calloway, this is what everything we had for three y
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Jason was admitted to the ICU at the downtown hospital.But his ruined body had built up a resistance to every anesthetic and painkiller.The Calloway fortune was gone. To cover the ICU costs, Patricia sold every piece of jewelry and every property she owned.In the end, the fall proved too much. She lost her mind and was committed to a psychiatric hospital.Vivian was convicted of fraud and grand larceny against the Calloway family and sent to a women's prison, both legs still broken.Then there was Jason.In his final three days, his organs failed in rapid succession. Every breath felt like swallowing crushed glass.His skin began to ulcerate. His blood thickened and seized in his veins like rust.On the third day, he was nothing but skin stretched over bone. His eyes had sunk deep into their sockets. He had gone blind.Yet his withered right hand clutched something.No matter how hard they tried, the nurses couldn't pry his fingers open.I stood on the roof of the building across th
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