I was already too late!!
99 Bloody Lashes and a Bullet to His Heart — Alternative ending I WAS ALREADY TOO LATE!! AFTERMATH The bullet echoed. A final bang that wasn’t empty. Dominic collapsed to the ground—blood spreading too fast, too real. Ariana stood frozen. She didn’t scream. She didn’t run to him. She just… left. Stumbling, numb. Not because she didn’t care—because she cared too much. Too deeply. Too wildly. She didn’t know what was real anymore. Didn’t know if her heart was still inside her chest or lying on the ground next to him. SINCLAIR MANSION Everything moved fast. Too fast. The wedding was set. Dresses, florals, the whispers of approval. Christopher was kind. Gentle, even. But Ariana couldn’t see any of it. Her thoughts… were trapped. Like thorns coiling tighter around Dominic’s blood-soaked shirt. The 99 lashes she gave him flashed in her head—the cruel, punishing ones. Then, that night. When he handed her the knife, guiding her hand to carve “Ari” into his own skin. She had f...