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Chapter Twenty-Seven. Face To Face

Penulis: Selene Voss
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-29 15:54:31

He was sitting when we walked in.

That was the first thing I noticed. He was not standing to make an impression. He was not positioned by a window or behind a desk designed to intimidate. He was just sitting in a plain room. Like a man who had decided long ago that he did not need props to be dangerous.

Richard Wren.

My father's brother.

He looked like my father in the way that people who grew up in the same house look alike. Same jaw. Same eyes. But where my father carried his years with a kin
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