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Chapter 10: The Escape

Author: Diva_writes
last update publish date: 2026-05-02 01:28:59

The days after the nightmare blurred together like watercolors left out in the rain. I stopped counting the hours, stopped trying to track the sun through the frost-covered window, and stopped caring about anything except the slow, steady rhythm of survival.

The servants came and went with trays of food. The fire burned and died and was relit. The nobles laughed outside my door, and Felipe's name floated through the walls like smoke, and I sat against the headboard and waited.

But I was not jus
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