ARYA At first, there was only silence. I floated in it, suspended in a limbo, unable to move or speak. Then I heard voices. Lucien's voice. And mine...or rather, her voice, using my mouth. I tried to claw my way to the surface, but the darkness wrapped around me like chains. My body didn't belong to me anymore. Then the kiss happened, and I felt it. It was like being buried alive while someone else wore my skin. A hundred emotions collided at once. Disgust, rage, sorrow, and heartbreak. But none of it compared to what came next: Daxton. I felt it before I saw it. The sharp sting of betrayal. I felt the way the world tilted violently as if something had just cracked inside him. "DAXTON!" I screamed inside my own mind, banging against the walls of my own bones, begging him not to believe what he saw. And as though a blindfold had just been ripped off my face, I saw everything. Daxton stood there, frozen. He looked as though someone had just reached inside his che
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