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Chapter 98

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The door clicked shut behind her, and the library fell into a silence so thick Richard could hear his own pulse pounding in his ears.

Not from this fight. Not from you.

Her words lingered, sharp as glass, slicing through the armor he’d worn so long it felt like skin. He braced his hand harder against the mantel, the carved wood digging into his palm until his knuckles ached.

She didn’t understand. Or maybe she did, and that was worse.

He shut his eyes and could see it—Monet standing in Juliet’s gilded circle, her chin lifted, her voice steady. He hadn’t been there, but he knew that world too well. The smiles like knives, the whispers coiling under chandeliers. Hannah had flourished under that same scrutiny, polished and the leader of her peers. And now Monet—sweet, reckless Monet—had walked straight into the lion’s den, and all he could think was how they would devour her.

A tremor of rage went through him, not at her, but at the image of Juliet’s pearls catching the light, at the tho
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