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NINETY TWO

作者: Inkbyjane
last update 公開日: 2026-07-08 03:15:30

BENJAMIN’S POV

The penthouse corridor was dead. It was 3:00 AM on the eve of the wedding, and the clinical draft moving through the upper tier of the residence carried no warmth.

I didn't knock. I stepped through the double doors of my mother’s private suite, my movements fluid, silent, and entirely devoid of life. My black tuxedo trousers brushed against the edge of the mahogany frame, the white silk shirt beneath my unbuttoned vest loosely covering the rigid compression wrap binding my fra
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