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126. Captive and trapped
AMHello everyone. Thank you so much for being with me on this journey. Honestly, I felt many ups and downs while writing this book and I still can't believe how close we are to the ending. It literally warms my heart and my eyes. Thank you for your immense support everyone. About the updates: writing the ending is always difficult for me because it needs to be justified and and tied up properly. So the updates will be slow because writing the wars and all other strategies are taking more of my brain cells and I often delete a whole chapters because I feel something's off. This chapter alone was written three times. *sighs* But still, I will try to update as often as I can. God I am so excited and nervous at the same time. Wish me luck. Love you all <3
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