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Chapter 27: Breaking Point

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"Dust to dust," the priest intoned, his voice competing with the rhythmic drumming of a relentless downpour.

The words felt like lead. Lila stood at the edge of the open earth, her black silk veil clinging to her cheeks like a second skin. The cemetery was a sea of black umbrellas, a somber congregation of the city’s elite who had come to witness the final fall of a Vance. But to Lila, the only thing that felt real was the freezing rain and the man standing beside her.

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