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Chapter 12: Iron Canopy

Author: fairywinkle25
last update publish date: 2026-08-08 11:46:50

The silence that followed the phone call was heavier than the storm clawing at the glass.

Elena set her phone down on the polished mahogany desk, her fingers lingering on the dark screen for a fraction of a second before she withdrew them. The device lay still, a quiet black rectangle in a sea of highlighted land maps, bank routing sheets, and legal notices. Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the penthouse suite, the coastal city was a blurred canvas of charcoal grey and neon amber. The ra
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