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Chapter Seventy-Five
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2022-04-08 19:40:06'...I could just ask her,' I thought to myself, staring in the mirror at my reflection.
After that night, Aleric and I had agreed that we needed to come up with a plan on how to free myself from the collar… as well as remove Tytus as Alpha in the process. For obvious reasons, allowing him to proceed with marking me was out of the question, regardless of the terms Aleric and I were on now. And so we’d conceded that it was time. Time for Tytus to step down, allowing for proper change.
...But now that just left us with having to think of a way to actually achieve that.
I’d spent hours already pouring over different ideas, but was mostly coming up empty. All of them either wouldn’t work or were morally questionable.
...Which was how it eventually led me to be staring at my reflection, contemplating something I normally never would have considered.
To ask my former self for her help.
The girl I hadn’t heard
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