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CHAPTER 42: Guilty Until

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[Eileen’s POV]

He found me in the east sitting room an hour before dusk, the fire long since burned down to embers, the room gone cold enough that I’d pulled a blanket around my shoulders without noticing I’d done it. The window had been left cracked since morning, and the draft coming through it smelled like rain that hadn’t fallen yet, sharp and metallic against the back of my throat. I knew before he said a single word that whatever happened in that study after he sent me away had settled in
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