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The Manipulator

Author: Double-L
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-06 12:01:24

{EDMONDO'S POV}

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She’s fucking stupid. No, scratch that. She’s beyond fucking stupid.

Her foolishness isn’t just her problem anymore; it’s mine now. She’s dragging me down into the same bottomless pit of idiocy she’s dancing around in, blind and blissful.

She doesn’t even know half the goddamn truth, and here she is, batting her lashes, giving me those lovesick stares like this is some fairy tale. What does she think this is? Some kind of happy-ever-after bullshit?

She has no fucking clue about her father’s state. She doesn’t know the blood I’ve spilled, the threats I’ve made, or the monsters I’ve provoked to protect her. How the hell is she going to react when she finds out?

Fuck.

She’s a nobody.

A nobody living under my roof, eating my food, and breathing my air. And now she thinks she has the audacity to fall for me? Showering me with those pathetic glances, hoping I’ll look at her like she’s something
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