Asaraiah“Cut her.” The words hit me before the belt did.I flinched just in time for the leather to crack against my back, sharp and hot, slicing through the silence like a whip of fire. Blood pooled beneath my skin, and still, I bit down on my lip.If I made a sound, if I cried or whimpered, they’d start all over again. So I stayed quiet. I always did.My knees crashed onto the cold marble, the pain from the impact a dull throb compared to the searing agony across my spine. I tasted salt, blood, sweat, and tears mixing on my tongue, but I swallowed it down.I swallowed everything down.Everyone was watching.No one cared.My father sat in his armchair, pretending to read the newspaper like I wasn’t right there, being beaten to a pulp in front of him. My step-siblings: my sisters, my brothers, they stood around me like a pack of wolves, their laughter cold, their eyes gleaming with hatred.I was the Montova family’s mistake. The bastard born from an affair. The invisible daughter.

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~Malrik~I was going to die in a forest. How poetic.The king of the mafia underworld . The monster they said had no heart, reduced to a twitching corpse in a rotting box on some nameless land.I knew I’d made a mistake the moment I crossed the estate’s border. My skin started burning from the inside out. The air tasted wrong. Thick with iron. Like blood soaked deep into the soil.But I didn’t turn back. Not with this much blood already lost.I’d been shot twice. Once in the shoulder. Once near my ribs. Silver rounds. Special order. Expensive. Designed for things that shouldn’t exist.They knew what I was.The deal went south fast. Ambush. Double-cross. My men scattered like leaves in a storm.I barely made it past the gates. I didn’t even know whose territory I’d crossed. I just knew the second the blade pierced me that I’d made a fatal move. I didn’t have time to care. If I stopped, I’d die.I might’ve started hallucinating. Maybe it was the blood. Maybe the pain. But then, I saw a

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AsaraiahHe didn’t die.That was the first miracle.I checked his pulse every hour the first night, half-hoping it would stop just so I could sleep again without one more secret weighing on my chest. But no. He lived.And worse, he kept living which was very surprising.He didn’t speak much. Just grunted and watched. His eyes were strange. Gold-rimmed and alert, like a beast trying to decide if it should bite or thank me. I ignored them.Mostly.I didn’t ask for a name. He didn’t offer one. That suited me. Names meant attachment, and attachment meant disaster. I already had enough disasters to last a lifetime.He took up the whole back wall of the shed. When I wasn’t tending to his wounds, I sat across from him, legs folded, biting off pieces of dry bread with my eyes closed. Pretending it tasted like anything other than cardboard and hopelessness.He didn’t complain. Not about the food, not about the moldy blankets, not about the way I yanked too hard when I wrapped his ribs. He sta

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MalrikThe cracked intercom blinked silently in my hand.I stared at it, fingers twitching. My body was healing—faster than expected, or maybe too slow to matter. The silver rounds buried in my ribs clung like chains, but the bleeding had slowed. I could leave soon. I had to.And when I did, I’d tear apart the bastards who dared ambush the mafia king.But then it hit me again.That heat.Not the usual cold burn of adrenaline. Not the bite of pain. No, this was something deeper. A wave of fire rippled beneath my skin, prickling with every breath. It crept up my spine and crawled into my skull.Not now.The fucking bullets.I gritted my teeth. Heat pulsed through my veins, dragging my control by the throat. I felt everything too sharply. The stale scent of blood and dust in the air. The crumbling wooden walls holding secrets they shouldn’t. The sharp tang of her—the girl. Her scent was everywhere. Copper. Sweat. A thread of something sweet underneath.I shifted, jaw clenched.The door

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AsaraiahI knew he was gone before I opened my eyes.The shed was empty. Cold. SilentThere was no warmth from his body near mine, no shadow moving in the corners, no quiet breaths like the ones I had memorized the night beforeHe was just... gone.I didn’t even know his name.And I let him kiss me. I let him see my—no, I was only showing him my scars. That’s all. Nothing more.Suddenly, hurried footsteps echoed outside. I jolted up Was it him? Did he come back?The door slammed open. A blur of a maid’s uniform flashed in before the face revealed itself.“Afsana.”Her cheeks were flushed, hair sticking to her temples from sweat. “My lady—Asa—you have to return home now. The Montovas are back, and it's only minutes before they start searching for you.”Panic struck me like a whip.I was strong enough to run now. Afsana and I bolted through the back entrance, slipping through the servant halls and the kitchen corridors.I took a breath at the threshold, steeling myself. And then I ste

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