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Chapter 17: Quiet Lessons
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Cinderella and Her Three Knights Chapter 17: Quiet Lessons
Ella’s POVBy the third week, I understood something important about the Blackwood house.Nothing loud mattered.It wasn’t the raised voices or the arguments that decided things here. It was the pauses. The silences. The moments when someone chose not to speak. That was where the real power lived.I learned that by watching.That morning, I sat at the far end of the breakfast table with a cup of tea slowly cooling between my hands. I wasn’t really drinking it. I was listening.Adrian spoke first, as usual. His voice was smooth, confident, like he owned the air around him.“We’ll be restructuring some internal roles,” he said, cutting into his toast. “Efficiency matters now more than ever.”Julian hummed in response, eyes still on the book he was reading. “Efficiency can mean many things.”Evan yawned loudly. “It can also mean you want more control.”Adrian’s jaw tightened for half a second. Just half. Then he smiled. “You’re free to interpret it however you want.”Lucian didn’t speak
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