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Chapter 10: The Dinner

Penulis: Emma's Pen
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-11 04:56:41
The Blackwood family estate sat an hour outside the city, tucked behind iron gates and a long gravel drive lined with trees so perfectly trimmed they looked almost unreal. Amelia had expected something grand. She hadn't expected it to feel quite this cold, even from the outside, the stone facade gray and imposing under the late afternoon sky.

"Ready?" Damian asked, parking the car himself instead of letting a driver handle it, something she suspected he did on purpose one small measure of cont
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