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What Aria Says

Penulis: Jules Golden
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-07-03 16:19:28

Chapter 166

The chamber was the same one.

Same high ceilings. Same cold lighting. Same raised panel platform that required everyone below it to look up. I had stood in this room before, as someone defending herself, managing the question of whether her relationship with an Alpha was appropriate, giving testimony designed to survive scrutiny.

This was different.

I wasn't here to survive anything.

I was here to say something true in a room that had spent forty years being built on the opposite.

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