[Music recommendation: Eternal Eclipse - Autumn Moon]
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"How dare you even try to touch me?"
"Baby…" Jacob straightened and stared at her with wide eyes as though he were genuinely caught off guard by the brutal punch. It was as if he had never expected someone as seemingly fragile as her to strike him with such force.
"I am not your fucking baby!" she hissed through gritted teeth, her eyes blazing with fury.
Aliana was past the point of pretending to stay calm.
The fear that had gripped her moments ago was now being drowned beneath a tide of rage so fierce that it threatened to consume everything else. Her chest rose and fell with uneven breaths as anger coiled tighter and tighter inside her, burning hotter with every passing second.
Because it wasn't just the fact that this deranged man had tried to take advantage of her.
It was the thought of another woman taking her place.
The mere possibility felt like a knife being driven straight through her heart.
