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Chapter Nineteen: The Function

作者: Precious
last update 公開日: 2026-06-19 14:18:06

The gala was only the first.

Two weeks later, Leo delivered another invitation. A foundation dinner, smaller than the gala—sixty people rather than three hundred. Black tie. Her attendance required.

Then came a gallery reception the following week. Then a board dinner that Caiden informed her of forty-eight hours in advance, his tone carrying that sharp, unyielding note he used whenever a matter was non-negotiable. By the third event, Nadia had stopped treating each one as a sudden ambush. In
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