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Chapter Fifty Three: Known

Lily's POV

The room was silent. Too silent.

I lay on the bed, tucked under the thick blankets, but nothing broke through. The cold was from inside, from the hollowed space in my chest where my heart used to live until Simeon shattered it.

He knew.

I had no idea how, I had no idea when—but he knew.

And still, he hadn't come.

I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to shut out the pain, but it was useless. It crept inside me, taunting me with cruel reminders of everything that I had sacrificed. Simeon's trust. His affection—if he had ever truly cared for me. My pride.

I had sold it all out for him. I had sold my soul to protect the man who had looked at me merely as a betrayer. And in the end, it hadn't mattered.

A bitter laugh escaped my lips.

I had been willing to be hated, to be thrown away, just so he wouldn’t lose his empire. And now, knowing the truth, he still hadn’t come for me.

Would he ever?

The question weighed heavily in my mind as I stared at the ceiling,
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