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Debt Unpaid

작가: Jules Golden
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Chapter 80: The Debt Unpaid

POV: Odette

The blue silk was laid out on my bed like a body.

Somebody had pressed it that morning. It lay with its sleeves straight and its skirt arranged in a perfect fan, and next to it sat a pair of silver shoes and a small velvet case I hadn't opened. I looked at it from the window seat for a long time. It was the color of a swimming pool in a magazine. Every inch of it said good girl.

I didn't touch it.

It was a little after two. The sun had come around to
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