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Chapter 42: The Offer of Sanctuary

Author: May Che
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-07-22 14:25:19

Alaric Northwyck requested an audience with Rhea in the most inconveniently proper way possible.

He did not corner her in a corridor again. He did not send a private note that Maddox could burn in jealous silence. He did not ask through servants or use a wandering moment in the lower court. He sent a formal request through Darian, copied to the council steward, naming the hour, place, witnesses, and purpose with the kind of calm precision that turned refusal into its own confession.

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