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Chapter 25
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2026-05-02 09:30:00Eve's POV
I was going to drive Devin Cresswell insane. The plan had crystallized during the flight to Italy. I wasn't going to confront him directly. That would be too easy, and it would give him the chance to explain everything away with some perfectly reasonable excuse. No, I needed proof. I needed to see for myself whether Marguerite was right. So I was going to test him, push his boundaries and see how far I cou
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