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Chapter 65

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Monet’s fingers trembled around the document as if it were a snake that might coil and strike.

Her lips parted, then closed, then parted again. At last, her voice came, thin and breaking.

“They want to take the children from you.”

Richard’s jaw tightened, but he didn’t answer. The silence between them swelled, filling the room until it seemed to push against the walls. His chest burned with the effort of holding back—words, rage, fear—it all pressed at the seams of his restraint.

Her gaze rose to his, wide and wounded. “From us.”

That word—us—was too much. His throat thickened, a knot rising that he forced down with a brutal swallow. He turned away, pacing toward the fire that had long since burned to embers. He pressed his hand against the mantel as though the cold stone could anchor him.

“They’re just bluffing,” he said finally, the steel in his voice undercut by something rawer, almost fragile.

Monet stood frozen in the center of the study, the papers dangling from her hand. “They’
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