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Chapter 7 _ Explosive Truths

Author: Author Rex
last update publish date: 2026-03-13 19:27:24

Dinner that night felt like walking into a powder keg.

The four of them sat around the long mahogany table, the air thick enough to choke on.

Lavinia had set the plates down with deliberate calm, but her eyes were two shards of ice. Thorne stared at his food untouched, knuckles white around his fork.

Aveline kept her gaze lowered, pulse hammering. Only Merrick ate with steady confidence, one hand resting casually on his thigh.

Lavinia lasted exactly six minutes.

She slammed her wine gla
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