Chapter 346
Chapter 346
Chapter 197: Clear My Name
Savannah
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The moment those words left Chloe’s mouth, my ears didn’t just ring, they collapsed. A sharp, throbbing pressure swallowed all sound, turning everything into a distant, suffocating noise. My own heartbeat was suddenly the only thing I could hear, pounding against my ribs like it was trying to claw its way out.
But her words–those insane, impossible words–kept replaying in my head even though I couldn’t hear anything else. I could still see her lips moving, could still see the twisted smirk stretching across her face, but I couldn’t understand a thing. Everything blurred. Everything tilted
Kingston… touched Chloe?
No. No. No.
That wasn’t real. She couldn’t possibly mean what she said. I would have known. I would have seen something. How could she say something like that? How could something so monstrous have happened right beside me without my knowing?
My chest tightened dangerously. Air refused to come in.
“ Savannah… baby, breathe. ” Roman’s voice cut through like a hand reaching into water. I felt his palms rubbing my arms, slow and comforting, grounding
I didn’t even realize I’d had trouble breathing until he said those words. My throat was closing. My heartbeat was pounding in my ears like fists on a door.
But apparently, not even my inability to breathe was enough to silence my sister’s rage. She
tore
me with venom sharpened by years of pain.
“You can’t breathe, Sav?” she taunted, voice dripping with a hatred so sharp it felt like knives thrown at my skin. “Good. Good. At least now you know what it felt like every time I watched you watch me get raped through that glass. ”
Roman moved so quickly I barely saw him. His body went rigid as he stepped in front of me so suddenly that not shut up right now, Chloe, ” he growled, “I will hurt you so bad p>
even Paula flinched. “ I swear to God, if you do
“Go ahead!” Chloe screamed, lunging forward despite Paula holding onto her arm, eyes blazing with madness. “ Do it, you prick! I dare you!” Her scream ricocheted off the apartment walls.
I had never seen that look on Roman’s face–the kind of look that a burning building might Have, moments before it collapses in on itself. His fists clenched so tightly the bones in his knuckles turned white. His jaw was set hard, trembling with the effort to keep himself from snapping.
cared he would lose control. That he For a terrifying moment, I thought he might forget Chloe was a woman and charge at her just to protect would forget she was my sister. That he would harm her because he loved me too much to hear this filth spi. fro… her mouth.
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I grabbed his arm. “No, wait. Roman, stop. ”
But his eyes were still locked on Chloe. Almost as if he was imagining all the way’s he could break the bones in her body or do significant damage to her
face. And that alone terrified me.
“ What glass are you talking about?” My voice shook. “Chloe, I never watched anything from any glass. I never-” Words tangled in my throat. I never watched anything. I never watched you from any glass. There was only a mirror. No glass. You remember that mirror I told you that I always felt like someone was watching me through? You remember, right p>
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Chapter 346
She scoffed, but I pushed through, desperate, trembling.
“ You were the one always running off to Kingston’s library to see his butterflies. That was you. I never forced you. Mom and Julias forced us both to go there I hated that place–God, I hated it so much. But they trusted him. They trusted the wrong person. So, don’t you dare blame me for something I know nothing about. You don’t know half the hell I’ve gone through, Chloe p>
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