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Chapter 14 Kieran's Pov

Auteur: Anora world
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-28 17:10:05

I had the master key made three days after the deed transferred.

It was a small thing. Practical.

After all, the building was mine, which meant the master access was mine, which meant the logic was clean and defensible and had nothing at all to do with the fact that I had spent the previous forty-eight hours unable to think about anything meaningful except the way she had looked at Lucian Reed in that gym.

The way her hands had found the back of his neck. The way she had leaned into him as if
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