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Chapter 127

Author: LaurG
last update publish date: 2026-09-11 07:15:22

~SERAPHINA~

I stormed into the meeting hall so fast that the doors cracked against the walls.

There were multiple voices, panicked questions, the sour smell of fear from people who had spent years treating Aurora like the enemy and had only just realized that she had a family capable of burning kingdoms down.

Everyone here feared the Blackwells. I mean, even the council feared them. Almost every kingdom kept their distance from that specific family. For good reason. I was still having a diffic
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