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The Frame-Up (The Diamond Trap)

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Chapter 110

The dawn did not bring light to the Sterling estate; it only brought a colder, sharper kind of gray. Caleb had spent the night on the floor of the nursery, the midnight-blue silk of the gala gown now wrinkled and mocking, a reminder of the night his children had looked through him as if he were a ghost.

He had eventually retreated to his small, cramped servant’s quarters to change into the drab, high-collared gray dress of Antonella, but the heaviness in his chest remained.

He was
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