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CHAPTER 331

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Silence filled the room after Althea’s statement.

Then Dominic quietly asked, "Permission from whom?"

Althea looked toward the closed bedroom door.

"The house."

Enzo rubbed his forehead, groaning at her answer.

“You know what? I’m going to admit now.” He confessed drylyl. “I think I've officially stopped f8cking understanding ever since this begun."

She walked to the fireplace.

"You noticed something today, too.” She informed him, arching an eyebrow. "You just didn't realize it."

"What?" Enzo a
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  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 332

    The room remained silent long after Althea folded the photograph and slipped into her journal.No one reached for it again and the crackling fire became the only sound.Outside, the wind whispered through the old acacia trees, brushing against the manor's stone walls like unseen fingers.Althea walked stood motionless near the window. She started at her reflection from the darkened glass. But instead of seeing herself, she is seeing Alessandro.She sees him not as the man.She sees him as the architect, strategist and the father.For the first time since stepping back into the ancestral Seat, she understood something that had eluded everyone else.Alessandro had never designed this as a treasure hunt. She started to think calmly. He had designed it as an elimination.Every clue discarded someone who thought like a hunter.Only someone who thought like a guardian could continue.Althea finally and slowly turned toward Dominic."We've been asking the wrong question." She said quietly.E

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 331

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