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Taken off the crown

作者: ILma
last update publish date: 2026-04-30 20:59:40

Aaron

“You kept my armor.”

Her voice was nothing more than a fractured whisper, but in the dead silence of my study, it hit me with the concussive force of a hollow-point bullet.

For fifteen years, I had built my life entirely in the shadows. I had learned to weaponize silence, to read the microscopic shifts in a boardroom or a back alley, and to completely detach my mind from my body to survive. I had forged an empire out of blood, calculation, and absolute, terrifying control.

But I had never
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