THE GIRL IN THE MANUSCRIPT
“Or he’s too evil. I can’t tell anymore.”
She scrolled back through the manuscript, past chapters she barely remembered writing, her finger sliding over the trackpad in slow, deliberate movements. Chapter 7: Caelen poisoning his father’s wine with nightshade he’d grown himself in the greenhouse, watching the old man’s hands shake as he lifted the glass. Chapter 14: Caelen burning the rebel village to the ground, standing on a hill overlooking the flames with his coat unbuttoned, as if the heat didn’t bother him. Chapter 22: Caelen staring at Isadora’s portrait for three days straight without moving, without eating, without speaking, the only sound in the room the tick of the clock on the wal
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