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Chapter 65 The Last Night

Author: Evve
last update publish date: 2026-05-27 20:59:46

The final evening of the director's visit was remarkably quiet. They sat around the large wooden dining table. The heavy, overcast sky outside the farmhouse windows had finally broken into a steady, freezing rain.

The dinner service was completely different from any other social event Aurora had navigated in Cedar Falls. There was absolutely no competitive edge to the conversation. Isabelle Voss did not perform for an invisible audience.

She was incredibly warm and genuinely present. She did no
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