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After the Fall: Redemption in His Arms

Chapter 2 His Turn to Bleed

Word Count: 1248    |    Released on: 16/07/2025

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in his head long af

pen in front of him, but he couldn't bring himself to look at it. Not when everything that actually mattered was slippin

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houghts, over and over, blunt and b

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ly gone thro

thought she

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forgiveness. That her loyalty was

en so,

est, like someone had reached inside him while he sle

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ow to write a persuasive pitch, n

to her now, she thought, a d

ignore the ache twisting in her chest. She had a meeting in two hours, and falling

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tick, and flinched at the

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stant, her hea

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at his sides., like he was holding himself together by pur

.m. regret, his car had taken him straight to her

poo, hovering somewhere deep in his

just enough to see him, h

wed. "You shou

kno

an email. Tha

wasn't enough f

with a quiet finality. "So now what, Ethan? You want to talk

ned. "I've alw

ea of me. The convenience. The support. Y

got lost in the hustle. I thought

e doesn't pause just becau

eserve your forgiveness right now.

Her guard was sky

dn't bl

nner and didn't even bother to call. Or maybe when I stopped seeing that look in your eyes... the one that was begging me to jus

blinking back tears, her b

Ethan said softly. "But I promis

you're lonely? You want cre

nd my way back to you... and this time, I want to earn it." If that means s

can't just mend a broken heart

is voice cracking with something

was a

ered. "But I left you f

er bare feet, her hands s

lding itself together. "Why not months ago? W

e said. "I thought you'd ne

softened, just a tiny flicker of the wom

n it wa

e anything," she sa

But it's

d toward

"Let me take

pa

d quickly. "Just as a man who

at. "Please... don't make pro

s eyes locked on hers with qu

dn't s

dn't say n

f her closet, eyes fixed on the red dress hanging there

used to call tr

lingere

oing to dinner or walking in

er needed to se

and o

h trembling hands, her heart t

glancing at his watch for what felt like the hundred

ome. Maybe he'd ruine

en he

like a storm d

his body like she'd

o

cross from him

d for the

or his soul w

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her voice soft but

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1 Chapter 1 The Beginning of the End2 Chapter 2 His Turn to Bleed3 Chapter 3 Between What Was and What Could Be4 Chapter 4 The Fire We Tried to Outrun5 Chapter 5 The Taste of War6 Chapter 6 Between Want and War7 Chapter 7 Public Enemy8 Chapter 8 His Secrets, Her Survival9 Chapter 9 Her Silence, Their Secrets10 Chapter 10 Ghosts Don't Stay Dead11 Chapter 11 Shattered Mirrors12 Chapter 12 Control, Delusion, and The weakness of Freedom.13 Chapter 13 Resurrection, Vengeance, and the Cost of Secrets14 Chapter 14 Breaking Chains , The Price of Freedom15 Chapter 15 The Cost of Secrets16 Chapter 16 Vengeance is a Woman's Name17 Chapter 17 The Fall Before the Flight18 Chapter 18 Rebirth or Ruin19 Chapter 19 The Devil's Bargain20 Chapter 20 Ashes of Tomorrow21 Chapter 21 Burn Them All22 Chapter 22 A Queen with No Throne23 Chapter 23 Resurrection24 Chapter 24 The Crown of Ash and Fire25 Chapter 25 Blood Crown26 Chapter 26 Queen of Ruin27 Chapter 27 Kingdom Of Ash28 Chapter 28 The Throne of Ruin29 Chapter 29 The Queen's War30 Chapter 30 The Empire Rises31 Chapter 31 Her Reign Begins32 Chapter 32 Blood Crown33 Chapter 33 The Throne of Ash34 Chapter 34 No Mercy35 Chapter 35 The Final Bullet36 Chapter 36 Queen of Ruins37 Chapter 37 The Last Prayer38 Chapter 38 Ghosts Don't Stay Dead39 Chapter 39 The Devil You Know40 Chapter 40 The Fire Between Lies41 Chapter 41 The Mirror in the Fire42 Chapter 42 Resurrection43 Chapter 43 The Ashes of Truth44 Chapter 44 The Imposter45 Chapter 45 Truth Isn't Always a Light-Sometimes It's Fire46 Chapter 46 Rising from the Ashes47 Chapter 47 The Monster You Created48 Chapter 48 Identity Rewritten, Love in the Line of Fire49 Chapter 49 Blood Doesn't Make You Family -Choice Does.50 Chapter 50 The Ghost in Vienna