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BLOOD MONEY{Playlist Suggestion: "You Don't Own Me" by SAYGRACE / "bury a friend" by Billie Eilish}~CHELSEA POV~The apartment felt different when I walked in.Usually, the air was stuffy, serious with the scent of cheap cigarettes and my mother's coldness. But today, there was an intense, acrid smell. Like fear.I dropped my keys in the bowl. My phone was buzzing...Zoe asking if I was okay, Kade checking in...but I ignored it. I had a shift at The Mirage in three hours. I needed to shower, eat, and put on my armor."Chelsea."The voice came from the kitchen table. Samuel.I stiffened, my hand instinctively going back to the door handle. But I stopped myself. I wasn't the girl who hid in bathrooms anymore. I was the girl who walked into lion's dens and signed contracts with devils.I walked into the kitchen.Samuel was sitting at the table. A half-empty bottle of vodka sat in front of him. But it was his right arm that caught my attention.It was in a cast. A fresh, white plaster ca

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UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS{Playlist Suggestion: "My Body is a Cage" by Arcade Fire / "Natural" by Imagine Dragons}~KADE POV~the stadium lights were super bright, almost too bright to look at. You could hear this low buzzing sound that made your head feel weird, kind of like the ache in my knee. I was just standing there by the middle of the field, making sure my shin guards were okay. I pulled my socks up high, taping the ankles tight....then tighter....until I could hardly feel my feet inside my boots.I wanted to feel something other than the ache in my joint and the cold dread sitting in the pit of my stomach.I looked down at my kit. Number 10. The playmaker's number. The number I'd worn since the academy days. But something was missing. I wasn't wearing the yellow Captain's armband.Denver was.I watched him organizing the midfield, his voice commanding, his brown eyes sharp. He was pointing players into position, clapping his hands, shouting at the back line to hold their shape.

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All Chapters of His to Ruin: Breaking Chelsea : Chapter 101 - Chapter 102

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