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CHAPTER 69.

Author: Succy
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-21 00:48:08

Zara’s POV.

The heat in the Adams Estate was unbearable. It was a physical weight, heavy and suffocating, pressing down on my chest like a judgment.

With the bank accounts frozen and the bills unpaid, the electric company had finally made good on their threat. At exactly noon today, the low, comforting hum of the refrigerator died. The central air conditioning sputtered into silence. The smart-home system blinked off, leaving the control panels dark and useless.

The estate, once a palace of climate-controlled luxury and infinite comfort, was now just a stifling box of stagnant air. The smell of rotting fruit began to waft from the kitchen, sweet and sickly.

I sat on the edge of the master bed, fanning myself with a glossy Vogue magazine I had stolen from the dentist’s waiting room last week. Sweat trickled down the valley of my spine, ruining my silk blouse—one of the few clean ones I had left since the dry cleaners stopped taking our credit.

"This is hell," I whispered to the empty r
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