Twice His Wife
His mouth was moving, and even without hearing, she knew what he was saying: Don’t.
Aster’s eyes searched hers, looking for the flicker of doubt. “I won’t have to hurt him,” she said. “But I will.”
Anaïs’s breath came slow. Measured. She forced her body to relax against the pin, making Aster believe she’d yielded. Then she shifted — just enough to free her left hand.
The knife wasn’t there, but the jagged edge of the wall was.
Her palm slid against the rusted metal, fingers curling around a protruding shard. She moved fast, bringing it up between them. It wasn’t clean steel — it was ugly, ragged, and it tore through the fabric of Aster’s coat, biting a shallow line into her side.
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