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Vivienne Goes Public

Penulis: Promise Ime
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-21 07:56:55

Daniel's POV

I found it at six in the morning.

Not because I had been looking for it. Because my phone had been doing the specific thing it did when something significant had been published that mentioned Cole Enterprises. The notification alert I had set up two years ago after the bankruptcy when monitoring what was being said about my company had become a necessary part of rebuilding it.

I had not expected to need it for this.

I sat up in bed and opened my phone and read the notification and
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