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A Royal Conspiracy #28: Christian

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I balanced the lunch tray against my hip as I keyed in our suite's door code, juggling a stack of security reports under my arm. The past week had been a special kind of hell—watching Lola crumble under the weight of accusations that grew more outlandish by the day while I scrambled to put out fires that seemed to multiply faster than I could douse them. Today's media briefing had been particularly brutal, with three more "witnesses" emerging to claim they'd seen Lola near the cottage the day of the explosion. The fact that each of their stories contradicted the others didn't seem to matter to the press. Leon growled in my mind as I pushed open the door, his protective instincts raw and frayed after days of feeling our mate's pain without being able to shield her from it.

"Lola?" I called, stepping into our quiet suite. The living area was exactly as I'd left it three hours ago—the sofa pillows still dented from where she'd been curled up reading, her half-empty tea mug sti
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