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CHAPTER 235

Author: Olivia GW
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-17 14:38:57

Damien’s POV

I watched Michael’s car pull out of the hospital drive, the sunlight flashing once across the windshield before it disappeared down the road.

Then I turned my attention back to the man they’d just left behind.

Alain Durand.

He stood near the edge of the parking lot, back half-turned to the building, phone pressed to his ear. His posture looked casual, but there was a nervous twitch in his shoulder, a tension he couldn’t quite disguise.

I stepped out from the shade and into plain sight, keeping my movements unhurried. If he looked my way, I’d just be another visitor catching a smoke while talking on the phone. I slipped my own phone to my ear, unlit cigarette between my fingers, the perfect prop.

The wind carried snatches of Alain’s voice to me — low, hurried, almost agitated.

“Yeah, I know,” he was saying. “But I have to gain her full trust first.”

My pulse tightened.

He turned slightly, pacing a few steps. His free hand ran through his hair. “Fine… fine. Just don’t push
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