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She was taken.
She was silenced.
She was used.
They renamed her like she was inventory.
They broke her like she was made to shatter.
The night she is auctioned, she stares at the floor and waits for the same ending as always-another cage, another monster. But the man who buys her is not what she expects.
Thiago speaks her name like an apology.
He gives her a room with a door she can lock.
He hands her a key and promises she will never need permission to exist.
Healing is a battle made of broken glass and borrowed sunlight.
Trust is a language she doesn't remember how to speak.
And love-real love-is terrifying.
As the past claws at her heels and the future begs her forward, she must learn the hardest lesson:
She was never meant to be caged.