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Chapter 52

Penulis: Gem
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POV: Cameron

I shouldn’t have agreed to meet her.

Even as I sat there in the booth of this sleek downtown café that smelled like money and vanilla bean, I knew it was a trap. The kind of place where people wore tailored coats and pretended their cold brews were personality traits.

Hilda slid into the seat across from me without saying a word. Her coat was sharp-shouldered and probably custom. Her nails were freshly done, black with tiny silver lines—like daggers that could also sign contracts. She didn’t smile. Didn’t even fake one. Just raised a perfectly sculpted brow like I was a pop quiz she already knew the answers to.

“Cameron,” she said finally, drawing my name out like a cigarette drag. “I was curious how far you’d go.”

I didn’t flinch. I came here with a plan, and I was going to stick to it. Even if her energy felt like a black hole trying to suck me into some kind of villain monologue.

“I’m not here to fight,” I said, sliding the file across the table. “This is what I came f
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