Chapter 118– The Justice You Deserve

Chapter 118

RUSSEL

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Russel's voice echoed behind me as I fled down the stairs, "Allesia, wait!"

But I didn’t stop. I couldn’t.

I burst through the front door and into the warm evening air, my vision blurred by tears. My mind was a whirlwind of emotions—betrayal, anger, confusion. How could the man I loved, and my closest friend, hide such a monumental truth from me?

Maybe it was intentional, maybe this whole thing was a game, even to Russel. Like Nikolai, he probably even lied about loving me just to be close because he knew I was into him.

He had manipulated me from the very first day we met up to this point, what else couldn’t he do? Maybe that explained why after all the love he preached these last weeks, he still couldn’t get rid of his dead ex’s portraits. Maybe I was just part of a bigger game.

What was I even expecting? Believing he would bend his rules for me?

I reached my car and fumbled with the keys, my hands trembling. The door finally unlocked, and I slipped insid