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Chapter Twenty-Nine: What Kindness Costs

Penulis: Aveline Kryss
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-06-27 05:54:55

“Do you think she leaked it?” I asked.

Damien didn’t defend his grandmother automatically. “I think she knows more than she told us.”

“Was any of her kindness real?”

“I won’t answer for her,” he said. “We’ll ask her together.”

By morning, the image still sat between us like a warning. Damien had already asked his grandmother to come to the penthouse, but he brought me water first and settled beside me, his gaze falling to the ring on my hand.

“Do you regret last night?” I asked.

“No.”

“Even wit
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Claire is too bold to come and question their marriage was a contractual arrangement without love. His grandmother found out that the reporters were circling and she chose to protect both of them
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