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CHAPTER FORTY-NINE

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last update 게시일: 2026-09-17 14:10:17

Zahara's POV

I stared at the handwriting beneath Thomas's number for a long moment. The two words settling into me with a coldness that had nothing to do with the temperature of the room.

Call this number.

Not his own line, but someone else's. Someone Thomas apparently believed I needed to speak with directly. Though he had said nothing about it while sitting across from me only minutes earlier.

I did not call it. Every careful instinct I had built over five years told me that dialing an unknow
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