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Rowan Comes Back

Author: Timon
last update publish date: 2026-05-28 05:41:30

Cole’s POV

He called me on a Thursday morning from the road.

Not from the city. From somewhere between the city and the estate, which meant he had already been driving for two hours before he decided to call, which meant he had made the decision the night before and had been carrying it alone through the early morning.

“I figured out what useful looks like,” he said.

I was in the war room with coffee and I sat back in my chair and gave him the silence to continue.

“The subsidiary territory,” he
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