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Chapter 21

Author: Uyai Jimmy
last update publish date: 2025-08-17 01:37:29

The silence that lingered after Samuel’s final words in the lounge felt heavier than the velvet drapes that framed the tall windows. Ava held his gaze with the stillness of a woman who had learned long ago that silence could wound sharper than words. She rose from her seat first, her movements composed, deliberate, as if the photograph he’d just shown her hadn’t cracked the ground beneath her carefully constructed world.

“If this is all you wanted me to see,” she said coolly, smoothing her dres
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