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d, I was sent to a brutal training camp. My arranged fiancé, Cap
shroom. Behind a locked stall, she delivered a stillborn baby, covered her hands in blood,
ing for my immediate execution. Luca played the devastated fiancé perfectly, publicly condemning me to death for treas
his rank and his twisted lies would easily send me to my g
werful had slipped me an anonymous war
lessandro arrived to pass judgment, I didn't be
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hed your entire setup live
pte
nna
ng from every footstep. I sat on my cot, staring at a black folio that had ap
one ty
ll fake a stillbirth in the washroom and frame
my life as a chess piece: Don Alessandro Falcone. The
d found a metallic wafer. A scrap of paper
letter into the trash can and lit
o'cl
way, jaw tight. Beside him, Lucia
t her to the w
d my arm
g mine. "You will obey, or I'll strip
inch. "I sa
she's sick," I said, loud enough for the corridor to
heatrically. "Why are you so c
ared: "Everyone out! Two hours of planks-no wat
to the burning dirt. Their
ack. "You will take her. Refuse again, and these
shaking faces. They wou
rap. I had to walk in
nched free. "
My fingers found the cold metal device. I pressed
around a secret that could save me-or e
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