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Chapter 28 – The Secret She Uses

Author: Ella Tess
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-29 11:00:57

The Montclaire estate emptied in layers.

Cars hummed quietly down the gravel loop, retreating beneath a twilight sky bruised purple and gray. Echoes of laughter drifted once from the south terrace—a polished afterthought of evening. Someone lit a cigarette near the wine cellar, embers glowing like secrets, security discreetly turning away.

Elise waited until the last taillights disappeared past the east gate before she moved.

She avoided the main staircase. She didn’t need to announce her presence, not tonight.

The service corridor behind the formal library was rarely used, its walls narrow, lined with old ledgers and forgotten surveillance reels—a relic from days when power was tracked in ink, and memories were stored in dusty film canisters.

She moved silently, the subtle hint of jasmine in her perfume lingering briefly, unfamiliar even to her. Not Cassian’s Elise. Not anymore.

At the corridor’s far end, a door stood half-open—not the boardroom, not Matteo’s private office. Just a r
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