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CHAPTER 35:The Invitation

Auteur: Hannahgold
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ISABELLA

Two days have passed since the attack, but the memory still clings to me like a shadow I can’t shake. The sound of that gunshot hasn’t left my ears sharp, metallic, final. Every creak in the house makes me flinch.

Who could want me dead?

Damian has kept me locked inside the estate ever since, as if the walls could keep danger out. I haven’t seen him once. Not in the halls. Not in the gardens. He’s simply… gone. And in his absence, Richard and Tracy watch me like hawks, their eyes following even the smallest movement I make.

The truth is, I’m afraid. I just don’t know who I should be afraid of.

It started the night he proposed when a bullet tore through the air just behind me. Then, days later, men tried to drag me away from him in broad daylight. It’s too much to be a coincidence. Someone is hunting me.

I push the thoughts aside as I step into the kitchen. Warm light spills across the polished counters. The air smells of freshly baked bread and coffee strong enough to jolt an
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