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Chapter 9 - Served

Author: Queen's pen
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-09-03 14:36:58

Virelle’s POV

I threw the phone in the drawer like it had bitten me.

I didn’t decide to do it. My body just did it, hand moving on its own, drawer sliding shut hard enough to rattle the cheap dresser it sat in. I stood there staring at it like the wood itself might start talking next. This is an attempted legal service notification for Virelle Hartwell.

I hadn’t heard that name out loud in weeks. Hearing it now, flat and robotic, coming out of a phone in a city where nobody was supposed to know
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