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last update publish date: 2026-03-11 05:02:49
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

Jade's POV

We stayed for dinner after lunch because Aurelia insisted with a stubbornness that clearly mirrored her father’s. By the time the final course was served, I felt as if I had survived a high-level security clearance interview that I had never actually agreed to attend.

Mrs. Montclair had a terrifyingly elegant way of asking questions. They sounded like polite table talk, but they peeled through every layer of a person like a surgeon’s blade. Her voice never rose
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