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Kaaya’s legs felt numb, her breaths short and shallow as she stormed away from Dev. Each step felt heavier than the last, as if the weight of everything was crushing her.
Her mother. Gone.
Her last rites. Snatched.
Dev. Back in her life like a storm she never asked for.
The temple bells rang in the distance. The sound made her stomach twist. That was where she was supposed to perform her mother’s last rites. That was where she should have been, lighting the sacred fire, bidding her mother a final goodbye.
But Dev had taken that away.
He had stolen even that.
Her vision blurred. She felt it coming that drowning, suffocating darkness creeping in from the edges.
Her knees buckled. The world spun.
The last thing she saw before everything faded was Dev turning around, his s
