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Chapter 25: Smoke Before Fire

Author: Lily Small
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-28 02:37:41

Karen didn’t sleep that night.

Not because she couldn’t. But because her mind was running wild calculating, unlearning, preparing.

Delilah had dragged out the past, twisted it, packaged it for the media like some tragic story with herself as the martyr. And now, Karen’s photo was already circling blogs with the headline: “Blake Heiress: Betrayed or Built on Lies?”

She tossed her phone aside. “She’s not just trying to hurt me. She wants to erase me.”

Henry, standing at the window in his apartment, replied calmly, “Then we remind her why she buried you in the first place.”

Karen raised an eyebrow. “Because I was a scared girl with no power?”

“No.” He turned to face her. “Because even scared, you were a threat.”

Meanwhile, at the Blake residence, the atmosphere was tense. Karen’s father stormed through the front door, slamming it shut behind him.

Delilah looked up from the couch, feigning innocence. “You’re back early.”

He tossed the phone on the coffee table. “Henry Frost just called me
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