Till Death Took Me First; The Bride's Revenge

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and digging in. "Do you think I'm just going to let you do anything you want? Your father is no longer here to

his hold glaring to see. "Why are you being so cruel, Lucien. I loved you so much, so why are you treating me this w

me straight in the eyes. "Becaus

did you ask me to marry you!

nacingly, "Ignore you. You literally gave his

f you. Nessa was my friend fir

p down you hoped that Lucien would see your sacrifice and choos

ital. I only agreed to donate because the doctor said any delay a

the look on their face

l the very end to cover up their own guilt. The

that you only did what you did to get me to marry you. You we

e. Stop lying to yourself, Lucien. The real reason you're doing this is because you want to take o

so you know, if Helena hadn't proposed to kill you slowly, I would have done it long ago," he roared, then took a deep breath and pointed at my face.

tears, my heart p

ere poisoning me, I was ready to die at your hands because I loved you so much. You are right,

ing it up so I was staring into his dark, cruel eyes. "Do you plan

ght, I thought he hadn't seen me. It was on the night of our engagement party,

k at those eyes, kaida. You can't h

clenching at my side. "I don't k

te, so who's to say you're not going to run off exposing every bad thing I'd ever done?

oing to

f you kill me, you won't b

laughed. "Is that

ried out in pain as Lucien grabbed me by the hair, his

s burning into mine. "You don't actually think you're going to leave

nched me, righ

upted in my gut, knocking

tered. My nails dug at the tiles, looking for

bove me, then kicked me on my side, over and over

o crawl away from him, my vision

ole ruckus by now, so why wa

re do you think you're crawling to, huh?

ed and noticed red stains on the tiles. I

screaming in

. You can't kill her. Everyt

e in my head, and feeling a surge of energy, I pul

think you are doing," he

bbed the knife on the counter and tur

crashing to the floor, the kn

ision hazy as more blood

pain in my heart worse th

's face was all dark and gnarly. Everything I thought had be

ted it, the dark grin on his lips stretching. "You should have just drunk the poison and died like

hoping that he saw me and remembered just how

own the side of my face. "Please, Lu

our life now? Was it all a lie? We both know I fucking hate liars!" he roared and before I could process

m went

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s started t

on my thr

little girl," he said, then pressed a kiss to my li

th, but not a w

that wasn't enough, he crue

wide with terror as she stared down at me,

he de

g, but I couldn't hear. The da

yes boring down on me as my heart

going

d they were going to g

ving my all, for loving him so muc

ce. I would do everyth

I wouldn't be the naive gi

was going to make them pay f

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