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Chapter 34

Author: Rose D' Arc
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-20 00:39:27

Zerah

Silence settled again, but now it felt heavy, combustible.

I forced myself to stand straighter, shifting my weight from one foot to the other. My throat tightened; I could feel the rapid flutter of my pulse at my collarbone.

“Miss Mikealson,” Ryker began, voice low and controlled, each word enunciated as if he were chiseling it from marble, “are you competent enough to even be in this room?”

His tone was quiet but icy, there were no cracks of hesitation, no questions in his voice. Instead, it was a decree.

My lips parted and closed. I tried to find words. My diaphragm seized. The sound I managed came out as a stuttered,

“I—I’m not late, sir. Nathan instructed—”

Ryker’s lips curled, and he turned his head slightly, addressing the entire board as if reading from a script.

“She can’t even speak straight,” he said, voice raised just enough for the dozen or so seated members to hear,.though it remained barely above a whisper, so chilling that it echoed through the room.

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Lilys
Nathan was so much better than this arrogant jerk of an ex of hers ..
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Lilys
Couldn’t imagine she still need to go back to the same house as him after this ..to have more humiliation and insults thrown at her . It was ridiculous she was subjecting herself to this out of excuse for her twin whom she had no qualms hiding from him earlier ..but suddenly wanted them with him .
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