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CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN: Maxwell Valente

Author: Sky_Ink
last update publish date: 2026-05-30 22:45:28

Raina stood exactly where she was with her eyes on the man in the wheelchair and her brain doing something it almost never did.

It went completely silent like every thought that had been running at full speed for the past several hours had hit a wall at the same time and stopped dead, and she couldn't process what she was looking at. She kept trying and kept failing and kept starting over from the beginning.

Michael Valente was in the Valente mansion.

She knew that because she had grown up in t
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