CéliaI spin on my heel, my legs unsteady but determined. Each step toward the door is a victory. I don't dare look back."Goodbye, Célia," his voice says behind me, tinged with a strange promise. "We'll see each other again. I promise you that."I leave the office, cross the hall, push open the heavy front door. The damp night air hits my face. I run down the steps as if the hounds of hell were at my heels.I'm outside. Free. Ruined. Terrified.But intact.I race down the steps, my heels clicking on the granite with panicked urgency. I run without knowing where, driven by a single impulse: flee. Flee this man, this place, this monstrous future I've refused.The main gate is already closed when I arrive, breathless, my lungs burning. I turn around, desperately searching for another passage, a gap in this prison of stone and iron. The manor looms behind me, its massive silhouette outlined, its dark windows like blind eyes.Suddenly, headlights pierce the darkness, coming from the side
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