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Chapter 125: Robert Sends Flowers

Autor: May Che
last update Data de publicação: 2026-06-23 23:52:26

The flowers arrived before anyone had finished deciding where to put Evelyn’s letter.

That was what made them frightening.

Not the flowers themselves.

They were beautiful, of course. Men like Robert Cole never sent ugly things. The arrangement came in a tall glass vase, white roses, pale yellow tulips, small blue flowers tucked between them like an afterthought too deliberate to be accidental. The ribbon was silver. The card was cream. Everything about it looked expensive, restrained, thoughtfu
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