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CHAPTER 28

Penulis: Ashley Cole
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-03 05:46:13

LIAM

Her kiss was a wildfire. It burned through the protocols, the calculations, the cold weight of my father's ghost.

For one second, my mind screamed asset, complication, liability. Then her lips, desperate and fierce, silenced it. The taste of her-tea and salt and fear –unlocked something buried deep. The part of me that played piano in the dark. The part that was starved for something real, something not forged or bought.

My hands cradled her face. I could feel the fine tremors running thro
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