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Chapter 88

Author: OYINDUN
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Xenra

In the cold, dark dungeon of Asher's pack, I sat on the freezing, dusty floor. My legs were pulled up to my jaw, and my hands were tightly folded around them.

Somewhere around me came the squeaky sound of rodents as they scuttled and scampered around. Just when I felt I was at death's door, it turned out that I wasn't totally alone.

The lonely, deserted cell was tightly secured with iron bars, and as I sat there, I recalled the words of the guards who had sent me in.

"You better start saying your last prayers, because there is no room for escape for you." He advised, his words dripping with mockery, but if only they knew I had no single desire left in me for life, they would have left me alone in the open.

Even if they had left me alone, I probably wouldn't have escaped, as I never stopped wondering if it was better I had died that night, the night Lenhandro had betrayed me.

My tears had long stopped flowing; there was not even an iota of strength left in me, and with every pass
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