a soldier guarding a battlefield. Every muscle in her body

herself for

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like her mother's blood on the floor and her father's f

acked. "You... you'r

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ou sound like you were expecting some

linked. Her

here? Aren't you supposed to be busy wi

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, Megan, asked with a scowl on her fa

o," Nate paused,

under her bre

don't know why you are here and I don't care

making Seraphina shiver. "You? You're done with me?" He grabbed her waist whi

sed as she stomped on his feet ma

me fall in love with you." He grinned, "A

ards Mate who ducked smoothly, "You psycho! You've always hurt my da

fingers through her hair. She was clearly tired of him and now,

it was possible. Well, it's no

owned. "What

ollars to pay me back in three days?" Nat

at three thousand doll

ilted his head towards Jude and Megan

her over an incident that had happened between her, Nate

ips, "Y- you sent th

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y parents?!" S

said smoothly. "But yes. I gave the

t up my parents-my mother is bleeding on the floor-a

e from me,

ey didn't steal! They borrowed money fr

softly behind her.

the kind of smile that

ne who kept you out of trouble all these years. I'm th

r charity project - the poor girl you could string along like a tr

d cold. "I let you into my world. I gave you peace.

t!" she screamed, tears

closer. She d

You cheated. Lied. Humiliated me. And now you ter

ame. It's a correction. I offered you

me a coffin

one, I would've had you disappeared by now

blinked. "

ss. "Which is why I'm giving you a second chance - to do what you s

d. "You'r

otect the woman I want? To want to bind her to me

nto a whisper. "Thi

at's lef

n't for

ready

ther. "Seraphina, please,

sharply to her parents, he

ng chip. I'd rather die than watch you give yourself to a man who use

rest, you should give us y

Nate with the intention of hitting him. However, bef

d him and pinned him down to the floor whil

ng her bleeding arm, while

of her daze and turned to

mm

d, tears trickled down her face on

, "You will

Y

"Baby, please. You are all I have. If they take you-if he marri

m's level and replied, "And if I don't, they'll kill

turned hi

en. You'll become nothing more than a... a baby m

ard. "Maybe that's th

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urts. Because I'm already drowning, and I need som

s brow. "So yo

you ever touch them again-if you even look at them the w

d at her f

ed - a slow,

ng to the door. "We'll get married in three days

ned th

us

ver his

voice dipped low. "

he

er father left with a huff.

like a he had coll

sobbed as she held

l, feeling nothing a

bled, but her

over," she

er pho

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