Delilah POV I froze as the door slammed open, light spilling harshly into the dim room, my breath catching when I saw the one woman I had prayed I’d never have to see again.“Get away from her, Caleb,” she snapped, striding in like furiously,her voice cutting straight through bone. “Dad told me to check on her, not you.”For a second, I couldn’t breathe. She looked different, like someone who had burned her own softness to survive. She looked meaner.That gleam in her eyes wasn’t just hate anymore; it was something darker, something feral. There was no trace of the girl she once was, the one who used to flirt and play cruel games for fun. Now, she looked like someone who had been forged in poison and never quite came back from it.Caleb didn’t move. “You don’t tell me what to do, Cheryse,” he said, pissed. “Oh, I do now,” she snapped, crossing her arms with a sharp, bitter laugh. “Because unlike you, I still have some control over what’s happening here. You’ve lost that right the m
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