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Chapter 105

Author: Ninakey
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Arianna’s POV

I stared at the sink like it had just grown two heads in front of my eyes.

The water ran clear now, as if nothing had happened. No red. No thick, cold liquid that looked and felt like blood. Just crystal-clear water casually dancing around my trembling fingers.

But I knew what I saw. What I felt.

I hadn’t imagined it.

I couldn’t have.

My breathing was shallow. My pulse thudded so loudly in my ears it nearly drowned out the sound of the running water. I stood frozen, hand still under the faucet, almost afraid to move. The memory of that cold, sticky sensation wouldn’t leave me—the way the warmth of the water had vanished in a blink, replaced by blood. It wasn’t just in my head. I had felt it. The shift. The weight. The texture.

And the smell—God, the smell.

Like a hundred rusted metals.

I took a shaky breath, holding the edge of the counter until my knuckles turned white. My reflection stared back at me from the mirror, pale and wide-eyed, lips parted like I was mid-scre
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