"I- I mean no harm!" she raised her hands slowly. Its eyes followed her movement with suspicion. "I fell in by mistake. I-if you could just, just let me leave." she pointed towards the opening on the left, sunlight streaming into the cavern.
His only mistake was taking his brother's girlfriend as his substitute wife.
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The Ogirri family, a noble family of Lords, held a peculiar tradition – the bride-to-be would spend the final two days before the ceremony within the imposing walls of the Ogirri mansion.
A day before her vows, a hushed conversation between the head maid and her personal servant drifted through the air.
"She screamed through the night," the personal maid whispered, fear trembling in her voice. "I was petrified he might have finished her already. How would I explain her death on the wedding day to her family?"
The head maid, however, remained unfazed. "Lord Cyprian knows better than to see his bride before the ceremony. Rest easy, she's safe until tomorrow night."
Then, hell broke loose in her head.
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Pamela, a 26-year-old with sickle cell, dreamt of adventure. But when treatment stopped working after five years of reduced effectiveness, doctors gave her a year to live at most. All she wanted was peace.
Life, however, had other ideas.
She's an introverted journalist, preferred hacking for information over leaving her comfort zone. Then came the story of a 34yrs tycoon with 49 wives, all mysteriously dying within three months of marriage. The story had no answers, and it got personal when the billionaire's 50th soon-to-be wife turned out to be her boss's only daughter.
Knowing her health, her boss offered a deal. Go undercover for three months as his daughter, find the truth about the tycoon, and her family gets years of education and care after she's gone. As the family breadwinner, the choice wasn't difficult.
But things wasn't as easy and straightforward as she thought when she met Him.
[Warning: Mature Content]
"He's deemed as the villain… but what if his actions were just misunderstood?"
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[Rabble band of outcasts!]
Calm witch~ "I've got a dissociative personality disorder, but I can separate them as individual entities!"
Mischievous warrior~ "I've got a high level of potential, I'm a man from hell after all."
Bored trickster~ "I've got many stunts up my sleeves, I can make you moan and bleed at the same time!"
Me~ "I'm just an honest FBI trainee."
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In the spirited underside of a world shadowed by the Abyss, Roman, a promising but untested FBI trainee, stumbles into a chilling nightmare. An inexplicable phenomenon unleashed bloodthirsty creatures unlike anything the world has ever witnessed, and in the chaos, Roman finds himself infected.
His search for answers throws him into a perilous alliance with a rabble band of outcasts – a calm witch with secrets of her own, a mischievous warrior scarred by encounters with the Abyssal darkness, and a bored trickster hiding a surprising depth of knowledge.
Haunted by visions of a looming apocalypse and whispers of an ancient prophecy, Roman must unravel the true secrets of his infection before it consumes him and unleashes the full, chilling might of the Abyss upon the world.
The Abyssal stain wrenches within him, a dark melody whispering promises of power and destruction from the very depths of hell.
But can Roman resist the Abyss' seductive pull? As his power grows, the line between a protagonist and an antagonist blurs.
Hello, Author here. This chapter was written in a rush, taking me 30minutes to write and 10minutes to edit. I'm sorry if it's a bit confusing.