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Chapter 41
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2026-04-13 09:00:25Maya's POV
The city looked the same from up here.That was the thing about cities, they absorbed everything and reflected nothing back.A woman could take over a billion-dollar company and come home and stand at a window and the city would go on doing exactly what it had been doing, indifferent and bright, utterly unbothered by the scale of what had just happened inside one building on one afternoon.I found that comforting, usually...Tonight it
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