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CHAPTER 22

Author: Author Aloura
last update publish date: 2026-03-13 21:24:00
SAOIRSE.

The room was a den of predators — teeth hidden behind tailored suits, hunger masked as patience. No one moved, yet the air pulsed with a silent war for control.

I stood in the room, tray balanced on my palm, my heart pounding in my chest. The air was thick, choking with cigar smoke and the sharp bite of whiskey.

Zeus sat at the head of the long table, his broad shoulders squared, his face a mask of stone. Knight and Haizer standing on his sides, their eyes hard, bodies tense like coiled
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