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Chapter 170

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Eliora's POV

I had thought about going.

I had lain awake the night before turning it over, what it would feel like to sit in that courtroom, to watch Mia across the room in the formal language of consequence, to hear everything said out loud in front of people whose job it was to decide what it all meant.

I had thought about it seriously and then I had thought about the last four weeks and everything I had spent them doing and I had made a decision.

I was not going to organise one more day of
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