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Chapter 17

Author: Iris vane
last update publish date: 2026-06-22 02:11:19

Chapter Seventeen

Priscilla’s POV

My phone screen glowed in the dim light of my home office, with the unread message weighing on my mind the moment I saw it.

How long do you plan to keep my children from their father, Priscilla?

The words blurred as panic surged through me, cold and suffocating. My fingers tightened around my phone until my knuckles ached. This was exactly what I had feared since the moment Creighton called my name at the convention. The careful walls I had built for five years
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