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76|Cruelest Twist
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2024-10-29 19:42:56~Viviana~
Our gaze locked. Recognition immediately prevailed in those gray eyes. Those subtly full lips that once gave a reassuring smile for saving my life pressed on a hard line. His almost perfect cruise of pointy nose crooked in the middle from a punch or two crinkled a bit as he inhaled deeply, closing his eyelids. As I stared at his right arm and backed up to his face like an idiot, I realized I was the only one astonished by this discovery.
Guilt, remorse, these emotions were written in his face as he heaved, sweat dripping from his forehead to his thick brows, falling directly down to the matting under his bare feet. Swiftly, he wiped his forehead with the back of his bandage-wrapped hands.
It’s clear. He knew who I was, not as the woman he saved, but as the girl he tried to kill.
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