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Chapter 76. Conspiracy: It Was All a Setup

Author: N. Mordon
last update publish date: 2026-07-19 05:27:15

Matthew Anderson

New York City never sleeps.

But that night, the silence inside the Anderson Tower penthouse was so oppressive I could hear my own heartbeat—an uneven rhythm driven by guilt, exhaustion, and the bitter taste of coffee that no longer had any effect.

Only a few hours had passed since we'd left Stephanie at the hospital.

Seeing her there... Broken, yet somehow still standing.

Holding Catherine's hand as our daughter lay sedated, surrounded by the ghost of a dead Vicenzo... Had shat
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