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The Trap Revealed
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2026-06-28 11:00:00The blue notebooks stayed open on the middle of the desk, the lines of numbers glowing under the small lamp. I kept my fingers flat against the paper, my chest rising and falling fast as the truth finally broke through my anger. Horton Rowen had never been a traitor to my family. He hadn't sold our routes five years ago. He was just a man caught in a meat grinder, murdered by Dante Moretti to start a fake war that would put the Lionel house in a corner.
"Bos
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