FreyaI stood up slowly from the cold, scorched ground, my legs shaking so badly I almost fell again. My house, the only place I had left, was nothing but blackened ruins and ash. Nothing remained. Everything I owned, every small thing I had saved since I was a child, was gone.I wiped the tears from my face with the back of my hand, the motion rough and angry. The wetness on my cheeks felt sticky, my eyes swollen and burning. I turned away from the wreckage, my shoulders slumped, my chest so tight it hurt to breathe. Everything has been taken from me.My life flashed through my mind in painful fragments, the wedding humiliation, the office bullying, the family rejection, the fire, my grandma lying pale and lifeless in that hospital bed. I had nothing left. No money, no home, no hope.Except one person.Ryder.He was the only one powerful enough to help me now. Even if it meant associating with the devil himself, I would do it. I had no choice. He might not be in Emeralda right now,
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