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Chapter 120

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“Put my daughter down.”

Elara’s voice cracked across the marble foyer before the front doors had even finished slamming open.

Her heels struck the polished floor in sharp, furious beats as she strode inside the Ashford estate. Rain clung to her coat, dripping onto the white tiles like scattered tears. At the center of the grand hall, Liam’s mother stood rigid as a statue, one elegant arm wrapped possessively around little Arin, while the twins clung to a housekeeper’s skirts nearby.

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