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Chapter 42: Jealousy In Jazz

작가: Comfort Shettima
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-09-26 02:58:43

Zara’s POV

The party naturally fractured as the night deepened. The elders drifted to the rooftop, nursing aged scotch and cigars, their laughter a low rumble as they observed us from above like watchful gods.

A message came, Mr. Everhart wanted me. I slipped away from the music and found him on the rooftop among his circle of old-world friends. I offered smiles, handshakes, polite nods, every gesture perfectly rehearsed.

That’s when I saw it. A man lifted his hand, fingers forming a sign. The same cryptic gesture Dr. Henry had made at the hospital. And he wasn’t the only one, several others mirrored it, subtle but deliberate, like a language whispered in plain sight.

“So, when will she join us?” the host of the evening asked, his tone casual, but his eyes sharp.

Mr. Everhart’s gaze settled on me, steady and knowing. “Soon,” he replied. “It’ll happen soon. Relax.”

Join what?

The word lodged itself in my chest, cold and heavy. This was the second time I’d heard it, that strange phrasin
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