The Cage She Built For Us

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ll, private room and into the main corridor of Elysian Fields VR. The place was sleek and minimalist, all white wall

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ho's been living in the

r original plotline. Turned the villai

who spent every waking moment, and a fortune I didn't have, to live in a fantasy.

l night. The air was cool and smelled of car exhaust and da

r affection. Her obsession with Liam Hayes, the novel's manipulative protagonist, was a direct result of that trauma. He offered her a kind word, a gentle touch, and she latched onto him like a

y I had t

Chloe was vengeful, yes, but her revenge was financial, social. She destroyed Liam's reputation, not his body. The crue

aught her to see her own worth, to hone her genius not for revenge, but for creation. I guided her away from Liam,

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d, her voice thick with emotion. "You're t

ny to protect my anonymous identity from a rival's

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