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Not for a second

작가: Authoress Kemira
last update 게시일: 2026-06-02 08:03:04

Liora's POV

The poison changed everything.

I hadn’t slept. Not for a second.

Alora was moved to a sealed room on the top floor with round-the-clock guards. I sat beside her bed like a ghost, watching every breath she took, terrified that someone inside these walls still wanted her dead.

Nikolai looked worse than I did.

He stormed into the war room at dawn, eyes bloodshot, still favoring his injured shoulder.

The moment he saw me, something raw flickered across his face — guilt, fear, determina
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