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~Elara's POV
Linda's words hit me like a slap to the face. For a moment, I just stood there, staring at her as if she had spoken in a language I had never heard before. It sounded too messy, too humiliating, too tangled to be real, and yet her shaking voice and swollen eyes made it impossible to doubt.
"Say that again," I said slowly, because I needed to be sure I heard her correctly.
Linda swallowed hard and forced herself to speak, even though her voice trembled as if she might fall apart at any second.
"Lira is threatening me with a video. The video of…Ronan and me."
A bitter laugh slipped out of me, not because it was funny, but because it was so absurd that my mind didn't know what else to do. I shook my head slowly, trying to make sense of the chaos that had unfolded, but every thought twisted into another knot of disbelief and anger.
