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Chapter 37: Elena Vale

作者: stunner_star
last update 公開日: 2026-05-14 22:30:01

Eli’s reply was still on his phone screen when Lucien sat down on the edge of his bed.

Lucien had twenty minutes, maybe thirty, and he sat there in the quiet of his room with his jacket still on and his hands loose in his lap and didn’t move.

The photograph was not in his possession, Mira had it, but he could still see it, the angle of his father’s shoulders at the restaurant table, the man across from him whose name Mira had written in the margin with her precise handwriting. He could see it t
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