Léo quietly walked out of Elara’s room, gently closing the door behind him with a soft click.His every movement was measured and intentional, as though he recognized the importance of maintaining silence in that moment.He didn’t look back.Elara, on the other hand, couldn’t move.She sat against the door, shaking as she tried to calm her breathing. Marco's words kept repeating in her mind:“I own you. Bought and paid for. You don’t make plans, you don’t make choices, and you don’t leave.”His words felt heavy in her chest, making it hard to breathe. She had tried to endure it, but she couldn’t keep living this way.Her father had sold her to Marco, reducing her to a mere commodity.But she knew the brutal truth: she alone held the power to save herself. No one else would. She was a human being, for crying out loud!She deserved to make her own choices—to breathe without Marco's suffocating control.She would rather die than be his pawn.The thought hit her clearly and hard. It wasn’
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