Eve didn't survive the basement for long.The woman who had once turned heads wherever she went slowly lost her mind under the endless torment. In the end, she bit through her own tongue to end it.When Theo heard, he merely gave a dismissive wave. "Burn it. Clean the place out."He grew more violent by the day. And somehow, more fragile.He covered the walls with carved numbers.Starting at 1,826, he counted down one day at a time... Then I started counting back up again.As though he were waiting for a day that would never return.Then one night, a violent storm rolled in. Thunder shook the estate.Blind drunk, Theo stumbled toward the basement entrance—long ago sealed beneath solid concrete—and clawed at it with his bare hands. "Bella! Bella! I was wrong! "I'm letting you out now!"Rain mixed with blood as his fingers split open against the concrete, streaking the steps crimson.But he had ordered that door welded shut himself. No key in the world could open it again.Thousands of m
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