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Chapter Eighty Two

作者: Dvyn rite
last update 公開日: 2025-07-22 06:13:45

Locket’s Echo

Rosanna’s POV~

I was in the study when Valenticia’s feed came from my monitor. Galden Exposed danced on the screen. She had called Ravi Patel by name, linked Lazareth inextricably to the illegal serum trade, and shaken Gregor’s empire to its foundation.

I could feel it in my chest — a gradual, creeping terror. Gregor would come for us now. He had always been brutal, but Valenticia’s defiance would lose something much worse from him. I’d seen that rage once, during Eleanor’s time.
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