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Chapter 72: First Battle

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Elara’s POV

The morning began with a silence that felt unnatural. I stood near the wide window of the safe house bedroom and watched the gray sky above the pine forest. The clouds hung low, and the wind bent the treetops in slow waves. The quiet outside should have felt peaceful, but the tension inside the house pressed against my chest like a weight.

War had finally arrived.

Ruin had known it would come. Everyone inside the club knew. The Bratva never accepted humiliation without revenge, and
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