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Chapter 38: The cage with silk walls

Author: Leah Al
last update publish date: 2026-02-09 06:11:42

*Aria’s POV*

It has been 3 days since I was taken from my son. From Lucian’s mansion. I was kept in an abandoned cottage.

When we arrived to my family’s estate, the first thing I smelled was jasmine.

Not the artificial kind sprayed into palace halls to disguise blood and money—but real jasmine. Fresh. Crushingly familiar.

My chest tightened.

I knew that scent.

“Aria.”

My name broke something open inside me.

I turned, and there she was.

My mother stood at the edge of the room like she’d been wai
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