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Chapter 177: All Three

Author: Evve
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 07:54:26

POV: Yessica | Edinburgh

They did not go to bed.

The sitting room was quiet, the house settled, the silver bands new on their right hands, and Yessica had said she needed to have a conversation about Catherine so they were having it.

"She did three things," Yessica said. "Accepted the defamation judgment. Used her board standing to close the Sienna thread — which I still think she did without your permission, and that is a problem we have not finished with. And then called the FCA voluntarily t
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