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Chapter 34

Author: DGorgeous1
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The estate was quiet.

Too quiet.

Not in the way that suggested danger. But in that rare, strange pause where no one died, no one betrayed anyone, and the halls didn’t echo with the steps of men carrying loaded weapons.

It should have felt like peace.

To Seraphina, it felt like exposure.

She sat alone on the balcony of her private quarters, legs curled beneath her, hair unbound. Her eyes traced the low hills that framed the edge of the vineyard. Somewhere beyond them, Gabe and Julian were still alive. Still breathing. Still plotting. Monsters . The architects of everything that had happened to her.

And yet...

All she could think about was Lucien.

He hadn’t knocked when he entered her room the night before. He hadn’t needed to. The way they moved around each other now—like two planets shifting closer with every pass—made permission irrelevant.

They hadn’t kissed.

They hadn’t touched.

But that was almost worse.

Because there was nothing accidental left between them.

Everything was a choi
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