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Chapter 106: The queen's gambit

Penulis: Leah Al
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-27 07:22:00

*Aria's POV*

Elena Drakov did not drink coffee. She drank Earl Grey tea, brewed at exactly two hundred degrees, served in bone china so thin it looked like it would shatter under the weight of a whisper.

I found her on the west terrace, overlooking the rose garden. The morning was crisp, the sun fighting through a blanket of grey clouds. She was dressed in a sharp camel-colored coat, a silk scarf tied impeccably around her neck, reading a French newspaper.

I had been about to turn around and he
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