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h with the flick of his wrist and sit down for dinner without losing his appetite. She had grown up surround

ever know

r. Instead, she had been taught how to lie before she even knew what the truth was. She had learned

she knew that love was a curre

ched men beg for their lives in her fath

e was eighteen, sh

ez blood. The

n't mean she

k waves of hair framed a face that was too sharp to be called innocent. Her full lips-so much like her mother

rld she carried. No one outside of their world understood what it meant

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er had l

knew, before he had molded her into something obedient,

the first time she saw the bruises,

eyes, forcing t

ood-you could never escape it. No matt

as caught betw

r. A world where she would marry the man of his choosing, where she would smile at d

other

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had looked at her not with fear or expectation

hing

t have let h

't have wan

hing other than duty, other than expectation. And now,

oor pulled her f

"Your father is leaving for a mee

leash disgui

ly before answer

en retreati

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kissed her father's e

't know

asquez found out the truth, she would