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Chapter Eighty-Eight
“NO!” a voice yelled from behind me…
…And a wall of muscle quickly tackled me off Cai, sending us both flying along the ground and sliding several feet away.
I pushed and shoved against Aleric’s grip but he was putting everything into this. It was almost impossible to free myself.
But I had something he didn’t, something to give me the advantage here; my dagger.
And, as quickly as I could, I brought it up… Angling it and…
“Enough, Aria!” Aleric ordered and he disarmed the knife from me, throwing it as far away as possible. “Enough.”
It was over.
“Do it then,” I spat, still wriggling in a futile attempt to escape. “Get it over with. Kill me. Just like my parents, Aleric. Is that the kind of ‘help’ you had in mind? Is that how you helped them?”
He growled and pushed my shoulders back down again to try and stop me from struggling.
“Yes, it is actually!” he said furiously. “That is exactly
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