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Chapter 224

Aвтор: Ellis Carter
last update publish date: 2026-07-22 16:13:53

Dylan's POV

The news that Eleanor intended to attend the wedding somehow made everything feel even more real, and I watched Aliya's face brighten with the kind of joy that could never be manufactured or rehearsed. She smiled with her entire heart, her eyes sparkling beneath the morning sun as she listened to Martha relay the details of the conversation. Only a few days earlier, the possibility of meeting Eleanor had felt almost impossible, buried beneath decades of secrecy and unanswered questi
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