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CHAPTER 91

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The library had become Althea’s refuge when she’s in the Valtieri estate. It’s not because it was safe, but because it was predictable. Books did not lie and charts did not manipulate. Medicine did not demand loyalty in exchange for survival.

She sat at the long table with a medical text open in front of her, sunlight filtering through tall arched windows. Her pen moving in clean, precise strokes as she reviewed her patients’ charts, making her notes. Anyone watching her from afar would see com
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