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Beaumo
y, tender voice. Sweet as
e for three days now. If you don't eat
he man I had poured all my heart into loving in my previous life. He had once been every girlish fantasy I pos
rsed to perfection, the curve of his lips calibrated just right. He must have climbed in through the balcon
his bowl
ll, shrieking into every pore: drinking this soup, being pinned beneath him, my grandfather dying of a sudden brain hemorrhage - he simply could not withstand the shock and fury of seeing his cherished granddaughter
d up from somewhere below, unconcerned with being ove
marrying Dudley Nixon come hell or high water. I
father. Alis
In my last life, it had been my final refuge. In my last
young man is far too eager. His wolfish ambition is plain as day. Master, you a
moving away toward the far side of the garden. "And Candis, my daughter-in-law, has the nerve to tell me 'the young people a
y nose prick
n through Dudley's ambition, through Candis's gentle mask. But back then I was possessed, blinded, deaf to every word. And before he could protect me, they had conspired to push hi
e window with perfect clarity. Into m
y eyes to
ough my grandfather and butler's words were nothing but wind drifting past a window. He even tilted his head slig
o naturally.
his smiling
"I only care about you" as a sacred vow. I would have believed I had found a man willing to endure any humiliation for my sake. Back then, hearing Grandfather cut him do
g at that smili
I saw another face: the greedy, twisted sneer after the drug took hold; the leering grin as he shoved me onto the bed; the look in his
ore my eyes, overlapping, s
wisted sneer. The dotin
ed in my stomach, and I crushe
room with my peripheral vision - the heavy oak door shut tight. The house was silent. Grandfather and Jenson were far away now, the
s script perfectly, e
father, catching us in a compromising position. My reputation
they had wo
d weak. My blue eyes brimmed with tears - not feigned, but the real tears that h
rse it was barely audible. "I don't eve
mile stret
reed being fed. He thought it was the prey surrenderi
my bed. The mattress dipped under his weight. He dipped the spoon into the murky liqui
l scent of the dr
at had been the sme
me, it
ely summoned tears. I was a lamb awaiting slaughter.
edator, was co
rough every cell of my being, a promise sea
l my heart into loving a man
liver that hell back to
ill a
ast one
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