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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: THE SERRANO STANDARD

Author: Emma Stone
last update publish date: 2025-12-24 08:38:54

Nikolai's POV

I don't even know why I bothered coming. I can’t believe I let this get under my nerves.

Viktor picks up the minute I call, like always.

“Boss?”

“Silas,” I say. My voice is low and clipped. “I want eyes on him. Now.”

“Copy that,” Viktor responds, not bothering to ask for more information.

I hang up and shove the phone back in my pocket.

I’m halfway down the block, trying to walk off the adrenaline before I head to my car, when my phone buzzes again.

I glance at the screen and act
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Emma Stone
I'm so sorry ... That was the initial plan but things certainly changed. Nikolai says his mother died because she was completely erased from their household the moment she divorced his father. She became dead to him but is not literally dead.
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But he said his mom died when he was 15?
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