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Chapter 94

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The Maybach pulled away from the St. Regis with the quiet, sealed precision of a vault door closing.

Elara sat with her spine against the leather and her evening bag in her lap, fingers resting flat against the beaded silk. The city scrolled past the tinted glass, intersections bleeding white and amber through the rain -- and she let the motion organize what her mind had not yet finished sorting.

Alexander sat an arm's length away. He didn't reach for his phone. He didn't reach for anything. He
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