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Chapter 14

Author: Ember
last update publish date: 2026-05-06 21:42:17
LORETTA

We left by eight am on the dot

Not a second late. The drive to Fitzpatrick Holdings took about fifteen minutes. That was fifteen minutes of quiet tension and silence

Aside from a handful of questions to which he replied with grunts and unamused stares, we haven't communicated since last night

I don't know if what we had this morning could be called communication though. I arrived at the table for breakfast, greeted Elion to whom he replied with a curt nod, I tried asking abou
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