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Chapter 154
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Drip, drip––
Heavy raindrops pounded on the window. Listening to that sound, Stella clenched her teeth.
"Ugh..."
She let out an involuntary moan as intense pain wracked her entire body, but the loud rain masked the sound. It was fortunate since no one could discover her current state.
Stella, with closed eyes, thought, ‘It's getting faster.’
The curse was consuming her. It used to afflict her once a month in the past. But as her coming-of-age approached, it had increased to once a week.
‘It should be unnoticed. If I'm expelled from here, I'll never be able to turn things back.’
Her closed eyelids trembled.
A decade ago, on a rainy day like today. After the day her twin brother died…
––You should have been who died! Why is it not you but him...!
Her crazed parents did the unthinkable.
––God will grant our earnest wish! So our child can come back to life instead of that useless one. Yes, if we pray fervently...
