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Chapter 291: The Announcement Invitation
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2026-02-17 06:50:00The invitation did not arrive loudly.
It did not come with press releases or leaked guest lists or advance speculation meant to soften the ground. It arrived the way Beatrice Whitmore preferred all irreversible things to arrive.
Quietly. Precisely. Impossible to ignore.
Lillian received it first.
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Lillian did not sit when Beatrice continued.She remained standing near the table, palms flat against its surface, as if anchoring herself required contact with something solid and unchanging. Her breathing was controlled
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