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Chapter 27: Recognition

Author: Evve
last update publish date: 2025-12-22 16:42:31

The new apartment was not a home. It was a workshop, a fortress, and a nursery, in that precise order.

Elias had, as promised, "handled it." He had used Aurora's grandmother's money to lease a sprawling, light-filled apartment in his own building, all under the legal, paper-thin identity of "Ariane Rousseau."

But the grand, empty rooms, with their high ceilings and herringbone floors, had been colonized.

The living room was now a studio. Bolts of wool and silk were stacked against the walls lik
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