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Chapter 22: A Dangerous Gift

Auteur: ROSY
last update Date de publication: 2026-09-14 05:06:29

Emily's Pov

I turned toward Adrian, searching his face for some sign he understood what he'd done.

The room stayed frozen around me, every eye still fixed in my direction, the air gone thick with how quickly things had changed. A moment ago these people had looked at me like something to be tolerated. Now they looked at me like something to be measured. The chandelier overhead threw hard little points of light across the marble, and for a strange, suspended second, nobody in the room moved at
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