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Chapter 7

Author: Rui Rui
Aiden's POV

This time, he zoomed in on the photo in the news article. The familiar figure in the black coat hit him like a physical blow.

It was Aurora. It was really her.

Aiden stared at the image, and for a moment, he couldn't feel anything at all. His blood had turned to ice. Even his breath came out in frozen shards.

He stood in the middle of the jewelry store, the voices of the staff, the noise of the street outside, all of it fading into muffled static.

"Mr. Reynolds, are you alright? Do y
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