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Unexpected Proposal

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CHAPTER 53

The morning felt heavier than usual. Not with tension, but with the weight of anticipation. The office hummed with activity, but I could feel it—something shifting, almost imperceptibly, like the calm before another storm.

Reign was already at his office, reviewing a thick stack of documents. His dark eyes were sharp, focused, calculating. But beneath it, I sensed something different today. Something personal. Something deliberate.

I knocked lightly on the doorframe. “Morning,” I sai
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