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The Broken Trap

Author: Belle
last update publish date: 2026-07-29 17:52:57

The door to Christopher's private office closed with a quiet thud. Anika stood in the center of the room. Her body was completely stiff. Her mind was stuck on the sound of Carlos’s voice over the phone.

Gabriel Gold. The name kept repeating in her head. It was the lawyer. It was Lark’s father. The man in the smoke, the one who burned her childhood down, finally had a name. She had lived with his family for seven years. She had cleaned their floors. She had served his wife.

Christopher came up
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