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The Discovery

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Chapter 41

Evelyn’s POV

The silence in the kitchen wasn’t just quiet; it was deafening. It was the kind of silence that rings in your ears after a bomb goes off.

I stared at the man standing by the counter. The "Jean-Pierre" I had hired was a collection of nervous tics, slumped shoulders, and a voice that grated like sandpaper on silk.

But the man standing there now, his laughter fading into a heavy, focused stillness, was someone else.

The way he tilted his head, just a fraction to the left
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