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Chapter 486: Beatrice Approves
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2026-03-27 06:44:25Beatrice read the terms alone.
Not because she needed privacy, but because she wanted honesty without performance. She sat at her desk long after dusk, the house quiet around her, the document laid flat beneath a single lamp. No annotations. No margins filled with corrections. Just clean language. Direct. Unyielding.
She read it once.
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