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nding before me. Dressed in rags, their wrists ti

I paced back and forth, my hands clasped beh

this room belo

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thing stumbled, her knees hitting the floor with a dull sl

me was. Her fate was about to be decid

ke fl

teeth," I

pleasant about her teeth. Yell

to the Bal

ke much for u

y." I spoke, the girl pleading for mercy as

't become Lucien Freakin Moretti by li

more I looked at all of them, the more bore

ifth

s. It wasn't out of fear. It looked to me

lating what sh

rest

me," I

de, dark, unblinking... locked with mine. No fea

uiet d

wn into her despite trying to be myself.

our name?

second before partin

," she

ounded fake. Her voice... steady. Clear. Controlle

best among the others. Beautiful, even as much as I hated

ying a game. One that I didn't know the rules yet

her,".

ure that she's going to be worth

he smallest of the batch. Pale, weak, and even

Raising his gun to kill her like it was nothi

bitch sobbing in my ears for mercy. But before I could

ar

enough to show that she wasn't afrai

don't see

hed, yet this fucking... this girl... this C

pped back. As if he couldn't bear to look at what I was

bold,"

enough to smell the blood o

rather,

is stupid. Then maybe you're use

ut she wasn't worth talking t

pare me." The si

ower now, too quiet. "Then you'll prove t

th a crown ma

dn't f

even

to two. To crush the rebellion in her mouth

Somethi

never want

nt to play

i

easure to see her

ike a man who is looking into a mirror h

ting for me to make this girl regre

think you're more special than the rest of them?" Lean

calculation. That only made it worse for her. "Yo

struck a deal with

er eyes already told me she had made peace wit

I whispered into her

ong to o

dares se

for t

for death

warn all

slave from now on," I sp

r opening that pretty little m