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Reunion Dinner

Penulis: Tyson Roy
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2025-10-01 17:50:33

The restaurant smelled of garlic and old wood, the kind of place where the tables were scarred from years of elbows and laughter but the wine glasses still shone. We had chosen it deliberately—not Elysium, not neutral ground, but somewhere human, almost ordinary. A dinner table, not a war room.

Still, when we all sat down together, it felt less like a reunion and more like the jury had convened.

Victor took the end seat, as always, a silent claim of authority no one disputed. Marco set his lapt
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