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Chapter 54: The Killer

Author: Rachelle Wylde
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-01 22:51:14

Ava

~~~

At first, I think he’s joking.

His eyes don’t turn down. They don’t even flinch as he says it: “I’m going to kill him.”

But the longer he stares at me, waiting for my response, the more I realize that every word he’s uttered was serious.

He’s truly going to kill him if I give him the go-ahead.

“Ava,” he says after a long silence passes, “I mean it.”

My body doesn’t know how to react. I’ve spent so long on the defensive, running from my ex, that I never thought I’d have the chance to be on the offense—killing him.

I’ve never considered he could die.

As much as I hate him, something about how much control my ex has had over my life has made me view him as immortal. Some days, it feels like he’s the only constant in my life, as terrible as he is. And sometimes, when I pictured my future, all I pictured was running away from him better. I never saw him being out of my life completely.

But here is Leonel, offering me that chance.

I gulp, still wrapped up in him, and try
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