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Chapter Twenty  Exposing The shipment’s Hijacker

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last update تاريخ النشر: 2025-11-11 15:37:19

Antonioni’s POV

She shouldn’t have come down that hallway.

But Annabelle always had that damn instinct for walking into hurricanes. Even though I have countlessly forced her not to be coming out of the room, because she isn’t yet ready to face this world, she has also countlessly disobeyed.

I didn’t hear her steps. Not then. All I knew was Clara, moaning, bent over the desk, silk blouse hitched like some prize I hadn’t earned but taken anyway. I gripped her hips because it was supposed to be po
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