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CHAPTER 7

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-14 09:40:28

THE WOMAN BESIDE LUCIEN CROSS

By the next morning, my name was everywhere.

I did not even need to open social media to know it, because the moment I stepped into Ava’s apartment and saw the expression on her face, I already understood how far things had spread overnight. She stood near the kitchen counter holding her phone in one hand and coffee in the other, staring at me with a mixture of concern and disbelief that immediately made my chest tighten again.

“You need to see this.”

I closed the
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