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Author: Mary
last update publish date: 2026-09-27 22:54:17

Chapter 74: Damian’s POV

​The private apartment in Manhattan felt entirely different from the sterile, fluorescent-lit confines of the hospital ward we had left behind in London. I stood near the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, looking down at the heavy New York traffic below. The dull, throbbing ache in my fractured ribs was still there, a constant reminder of the car crash, but the physical pain was nothing compared to the sharp, concentrated fury burning straight through my chest.

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