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False Truce

Author: Lustra
last update publish date: 2025-10-09 23:01:13

Chapter 48

Rhett’s POV

The low hum of the ship engines was the only sound that filled the air. Salt spray stung my cheek as the wind whipped across the open deck.

We had just finished another “exchange”, one of Dominic’s routine operations. The partners we’d met had left in a separate yacht, their silhouettes vanishing into the horizon, swallowed by the gray-blue sea.

Dominic leaned against the railing, a cigar between his fingers, his broad shoulders squared in satisfaction. He looked every in
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