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Chapter 35 — The Other Woman

Author: Luna Hart
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-06 15:23:13

I saw her before she saw me.

She was near the entrance of the conference hall, standing with a glass of water and the same unhurried composure I remembered from the restaurant months ago — dark hair, straight posture, the kind of presence that didn’t announce itself because it didn’t need to.

It was a quarterly industry event, the kind where two hours of polite networking passed as professional development. I had been there fifteen minutes, spoken to the people I needed to speak to, and was dec
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