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Chapter 174

Author: QuillWhisper
last update publish date: 2026-06-06 17:30:23

[EMOTIONAL RECKONING]

"The worst betrayals aren't the lies people tell you. They're the truths they bury inside your blood."

I couldn't breathe.

Not because the room lacked air.

Because every answer I had spent my life searching for had become another question.

The archive chamber felt colder after Evelyn Drake left.

The silence she left behind was worse than her presence.

For the first time since entering the hidden estate, I wished I had remained ignorant.

I wish I had never opened those file
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