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Chapter 58: Beatrice Meets Nathaniel Again

Author: FortunaSolis
last update publish date: 2026-01-01 20:04:16

The Whitmore Foundation’s private salon overlooked the harbor, though the glass was angled so the ships appeared distant, reduced to geometry and light. Nathaniel Crosswell stood with his back straight and his hands clasped behind him, as if the city itself were a board presentation he was waiting to begin.

Beatrice Whitmore entered without announcement.

She wore no jewelry except a thin band at her wrist. No staff accompanied her. Yet the room recalibrated the moment she arrived, as if the air
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