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Chapter 39: The Flight Home

Author: Evve
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-12-25 10:49:22

The sterile, white-on-white expanse of the Air France First Class lounge was a different kind of prison.

Five years ago, she had arrived at Charles de Gaulle as a ghost, a refugee in a cheap, gray hoodie, her face hidden, her name a lie.

Today, she was leaving as "Madame Ariane Rousseau," a myth.

She was the CEO of AVA, a fifty-million-dollar entity, and she was, in every way, a captive.

She wore her armor: a severe, black, minimalist coat of her own design, its shoulders sharp, its lines a for
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