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Chapter 25: Haunting Pasts II
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2025-12-04 21:42:27
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Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 66: Broken Bonds
Mikhail's POVSeven months later...The empire never stopped moving.Ships still arrived at the docks before sunrise. Millions of dollars still crossed accounts every day. New clubs opened. New alliances formed. Old enemies disappeared. The Romanov name remained as powerful as ever.The world kept turning.Mine simply learned how to move with less of a purpose.I sat behind my desk staring out at the Manhattan skyline as rain slid down the glass windows. Below me, the city pulsed with life. People hurried along sidewalks. Cars crawled through traffic. Somewhere out there, millions of stories were unfolding.And yet mine felt frozen.Work had become easier than thinking.Thinking led to memories.Memories led to Nora.And Nora still had the ability to unravel me without even being in the same state.There were nights when I woke convinced I had heard her voice.Sleep had become a luxury months ago.Nobody commented on the exhaustion beneath my eyes anymore.It had bec
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Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 64: No Regrets
Mikhail's POVI woke up feeling like death. For several seconds, I lay motionless on the bed staring at the ceiling, my mind blank and my body heavy from the alcohol coursing through my system. Then reality returned all at once. Nora. Houston. Gone. The ache hit immediately, sharp and merciless, squeezing around my chest until breathing felt like work. My throat felt dry enough to crack, my head pounded with every beat of my heart, and the half-empty whiskey bottle sitting on my nightstand explained exactly why. I groaned and pushed myself upright, instantly regretting it when the room tilted slightly. "Fuck." Pressing my palms against my eyes, I tried to steady myself. Sometime after Nora left yesterday, I had drunk myself into oblivion. I remembered standing in the foyer watching her walk away. Remembered the sound of the front door closing behind her. Remembered the unbearable silence afterward. Everything beyond that was whiskey, anger, and grief.Dragging myself out of bed, I
Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 63: Forgiveness
Mikhail’s POVThe mansion had never been this quiet before.Not even after deaths.Not after funerals.Not after bloodshed.This silence was different.It felt hollow.Rotting.Like the entire house had finally become what Nora always called it from the very beginning.A cage.The flowers in the living room had died days ago. Nobody bothered replacing them anymore. The roses I once filled the mansion with for her had withered into dark brittle things before the maids finally threw them away. Even the marble halls felt colder now, stripped of the warmth her presence unknowingly brought into them.I spent most days locked inside my office.When I was not working, I was drinking.And when I was not drinking, I was staring at the ceiling unable to sleep because every time I closed my eyes, I saw blood soaking through Nora’s clothes while she cried about our baby.Our baby.Even now, two weeks later, the words still carved through me like glass.The whiskey burned going dow
Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 62: Emptiness
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Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 61: Hopeless
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Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 26: Beautiful Beginnings
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Under The Devil's Eyes Chapter 24: Haunting Pasts
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