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Credentials Revoked

Author: Xorah Noah
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-10-23 07:05:34

Kaelen was in a meeting three floors up, entirely unaware that his wife was being walked out of the company that bore his name, and no one, in the chaos and speed of it all, had yet thought to tell him.

Kaelen heard about it from an assistant's frightened knock rather than from anyone with the authority to have stopped it, and by the time he understood what the words she was saying actually meant, Zariel had already been gone from the building for eleven minutes.

"Say that a
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