“I don’t want this… let me go. I paid for it… I paid you for everything!”Malikha’s sobs became more violent as tears streamed uncontrollably down her cheeks. Her entire body trembled beneath Aidan’s grip, her voice breaking apart with every desperate word that left her lips.Aidan stared at her, his own breathing uneven.“No,” he said quietly at first. “You haven’t paid for anything.”His eyes darkened.“Not a single thing.”He took a step closer, his voice growing heavier, carrying far more desperation than anger.“If you think everything I did to you, all the pain, all the punishment, was your payment for our past, then you’re completely wrong. That was only the beginning.” His jaw tightened. “You have to stay with me. You have to feel all of it.”His words sounded like threats.To Malikha, that was exactly what they were.Yet beneath the anger, beneath the harshness, there was something else buried inside Aidan’s voice—fear.The fear of losing her.The fear of being abandoned.The
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