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Chapter Eighteen: Fangs Behind the Smile

Penulis: Valerie snow
last update Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-30 03:42:50
COLLINS POV

I couldn’t breathe. Out of fear, not hurt, not rage. The kind that just sits there, crawling inside your chest. The kind that just sit there despite trying to shake it off.

Every time she gave me one of those gentle, trusting looks, I felt like the biggest liar in the world, I had kept this thing and this curse from her. How could I tell her something that would make her hate me, even though she deserved to know?

Because she would no longer see Collins after knowing the truth.
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