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Chapter 58

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Ember's POV

Knox looked at me like I had asked the question in a language he had not been expecting.

"I didn't do anything to Charlotte," he said.

"You just told me you found information she could not afford to have public and used it to make her drop a false complaint."

"That is not the same as doing something to her."

"It sounds like leverage," I said. "It sounds like you found something and held it over her head until she gave you what you wanted."

"She made a choice," Knox said. "I did
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