Accidentally Yours (Merffy Kizzmet) novel Chapter 185

Accidentally Yours

Chapter 185

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Relief wasn’t supposed to feel like poison.

Six months. Three days a week. Training.

It could’ve been worse. That was what she’d said, chin tipped high, smirk cutting through her tremor. And she was right. Rafael could’ve asked for something else–something permanent. Marriage. Loyalty. Blood.

But it didn’t matter. The fact that he’d asked for anything at all was encaigh to make Enzo’s pulse pound hot behind his eyes.

Time. Access. That’s what Ballandi wanted. Hours carved out of her life, 75 days, 150 hours, claimed under his banner.

Every second she spent with him was a second Enga

That’s the price? Then it’s already too much.

wasn’t there to see, to stop, to keep her safe.

The letter burned in his hand. He wanted to rip it to pieces, feed it to the fire, wipe every trace of Rafael Ballandi’s ink from the world. But even as his fist closed around it, the sacred weight of the rule pressed like a blade against his throat.

Life for life Fish

for life. Debt for debt.

And Lola–his stubborn, fearless diavoletta–wouldn’t run from it. He could see it in her eyes: she’d rather bleed out than look weak.

His jaw flexed. “Six months,” he repeated, quiet, deadly. “That’s all he gets. After that, he’s ash.”

Nico

From his post against the wall, Nico’s teeth ground until his jaw ached. He hadn’t said a word since she’d walked in with the envelope. but his whole body buzzed like a live wire.

it still didn’t fit.

Six months. He kept rolling it over in his head, and it

Six months of her in his space. Six months of his eyes on her. Six months where I’m supposed to sit here and do nothing?

just anger–it was jealousy, Ugly, hot,

Enzo’s rage was predictable, familiar. But what Nica felt simmering under his ribs wasn’t just anger–it suffocating

Ballandi was getting time Nico hadn’t had. Hours Nico wanted. Days he’d give anything for

He crossed his arms tight across his chest, like maybe he could hold it in. But when Lola glanced at him, fire sparking under her stubbornness, he couldn’t help the words that broke free.

“He shouldn’t get a second of you.” His voice was rough, low, barely

ely more than a growl. “Not after everything he’s already taken.”

Her eyes softened, just for a moment, before the

e steel slid back into place.

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Chapter 185

“I decide what I give,” she said. “And what I take back.”

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Christ. Even now, standing there trembling, she still carried herself like no one could touch her. Nico wanted to believe It. Wanted to live in that five forever. But Ballandi’s shadow had already stretched too far.

He looked at Enzo, at the way his knuckles whitened around the crumpled page. And for the first time in weeks, Nico felt the rare, dangerous thing that had always bound them both.

Agreement.

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