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doubt

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Chapter — Doubt

The mansion was dark.

It was always dark.

Mei stood at the window with her hands clasped behind her back and her eyes on the city below and the particular stillness of a woman who had been waiting for something long enough that waiting had become indistinguishable from existing.

Aurora was behind her.

Drink in hand. Unhurried. The specific ease of someone in their own space who had decided the evening was going well.

"You underestimated him."

Mei said it without turning. Flat. D
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