Unwanted Bride
But as she stared down at her hands, she realized the price of that victory was stitched into the very fabric of her identity.
"I’m not the same person who walked down that aisle yesterday, Damien," she whispered, her voice carrying a chilling, hollow resonance. "I used to think power was about defense. About building walls high enough, securing trusts deeply enough, that no one could ever reach me or hurt me again. Tonight, I realized that true power is the willingness to strike first, to look at your own blood through a crosshair and pull the trigger without blinking."
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