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Chapter 7: Wedding Morning

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last update 게시일: 2025-12-22 16:32:07

The sun came up.

Aurora watched it happen from the window seat of her bridal suite, her knees drawn to her chest. She had not slept. She had not even been in her bed.

After Liam had left her, she had remained in the foyer for a long, silent, shattered hour.

Then, on her hands and knees, her cashmere coat still on, she had picked up every last sliver of the broken glass. She had done it with her bare, trembling fingers, dropping the pieces one by one into her own hand until her palm was bleeding
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