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The Sterling Shadow

Author: Authoress Funky
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Chapter 10

Evelyn’s POV

The Alps did not welcome.

They loomed.

They were white and endless, their jagged peaks cutting into the charcoal sky like the teeth of a predator. As the jet broke through the cloud layer, the sheer scale of the mountains felt like a warning from the earth itself. Up here, nothing was soft.

Not the land, not the legacy, and certainly not the people who carried the Sterling name. We carried it like a weapon, sharpened over generations, until we forgot it was ever meant
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