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Chapter Twenty Two

Author: Dvyn rite
last update publish date: 2025-04-30 07:33:11

Shadows of Vengeance

Stefans POV~

I leaned against the floor-to-ceiling windows, with a glass of bourbon in my hand, the sting of the gas explosion that raged in my chest. Valenticia. Carter’s voice an hour ago had assured me, that she was alive, shaken, but unharmed in the gas leak.

A miracle, he’d said.

I didn’t believe in miracles.

The gas leak wasn’t random. Nor was the server crash at Clawford Enterprises two days earlier, or the cryptic threats that had been whispered through back
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